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title: "Yes, there is always snow and ice," said the reindeer; "and it is a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, there is always snow and ice," said the reindeer; "and it is a glorious place; you can leap and run about freely on the sparkling ice plains. Who acts: snow, reindeer, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 54

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"Yes, there is always snow and ice," said the reindeer; "and it is a glorious place; you can leap and run about freely on the sparkling ice plains.

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**Who acts:** snow, reindeer, you · **What happens:** be, say, leap, run about · **To what, where:** snow, reindeer, glorious place, sparkling ice plains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-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, reindeer, you), 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:pg27200:174:54
# text = "Yes, there is always snow and ice," said the reindeer; "and it is a glorious place; you can leap and run about freely on the sparkling ice plains.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | snow and ice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | snow and ice | the reindeer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | reindeer | a glorious place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leap** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **run about** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the sparkling ice plains |  | freely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plain=Trajectory |

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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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