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title: This snow-flake grew larger and larger, till at last it became the f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This snow-flake grew larger and larger, till at last it became the figure of a woman, dressed in garments of white gauze, which looked like millions of starry snow-flakes linked together. Who acts: snow flake, rest, white gauze. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anderse
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 26

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This snow-flake grew larger and larger, till at last it became the figure of a woman, dressed in garments of white gauze, which looked like millions of starry snow-flakes linked together.

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**Who acts:** snow flake, rest, white gauze · **What happens:** grow, become, dress, look, link, figure · **To what, where:** figure, last, garments, starry snow flakes, woman

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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 (snow flake, rest, white gauze), 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:pg27200:171:26
# text = This snow-flake grew larger and larger, till at last it became the figure of a woman, dressed in garments of white gauze, which looked like millions of starry snow-flakes linked together.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	flake	flake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gauze	gauze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	starry	starry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
37	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	together	together	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | this snow flake |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | rest | the figure of a woman |  | last |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **dress** | participle | rest *not said here* |  |  | garments of white gauze |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | past | white gauze |  |  |  |  | like millions of starry snow flakes | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **link** | participle |  | starry snow flakes *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **figure** |  |  | a woman |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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