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title: The Snow Queen has her summer tent there, but her strong castle is a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Snow Queen has her summer tent there, but her strong castle is at the North Pole, on an island called Spitzbergen." Who acts: Snow Queen, strong castle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 55

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The Snow Queen has her summer tent there, but her strong castle is at the North Pole, on an island called Spitzbergen."

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**Who acts:** Snow Queen, strong castle · **What happens:** have, be, call · **To what, where:** summer tent, North Pole, island · **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 Queen, strong castle), 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:pg27200:174:55
# text = The Snow Queen has her summer tent there, but her strong castle is at the North Pole, on an island called Spitzbergen."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	Spitzbergen	Spitzbergen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Snow Queen | Queen's summer tent |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Queen's strong castle |  |  | the North Pole |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a island *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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