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title: Often at midnight she flies through the streets of the town, and loo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Often at midnight she flies through the streets of the town, and looks in at the windows, then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful shapes, that look like flowers and castles." Who acts: grandmother, ice, wonderful shapes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 19

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Often at midnight she flies through the streets of the town, and looks in at the windows, then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful shapes, that look like flowers and castles."

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**Who acts:** grandmother, ice, wonderful shapes · **What happens:** fly, look, freeze · **To what, where:** streets, panes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, ice, wonderful shapes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:171:19
# text = Often at midnight she flies through the streets of the town, and looks in at the windows, then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful shapes, that look like flowers and castles."
1	Often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | grandmother |  |  | the streets of the town | midnight |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through street=Location |
| 2 | **look** | present | grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the windows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in window=Theme |
| 3 | **freeze** | present | the ice |  |  | the panes | then | into wonderful shapes | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | present | wonderful shapes |  |  |  |  | like flowers and castles | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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