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title: Two miles from here the Snow Queen's garden begins; you can carry th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Two miles from here the Snow Queen's garden begins; you can carry the little girl so far, and set her down by the large bush which stands in the snow, covered with red berries. Who acts: garden, you, large bush. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Wo
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 28

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Two miles from here the Snow Queen's garden begins; you can carry the little girl so far, and set her down by the large bush which stands in the snow, covered with red berries.

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**Who acts:** garden, you, large bush · **What happens:** begin, carry, set down, stand, cover · **To what, where:** little girl, girl, snow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, you, large bush), 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:pg27200:175:28
# text = Two miles from here the Snow Queen's garden begins; you can carry the little girl so far, and set her down by the large bush which stands in the snow, covered with red berries.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | the Snow Queen's garden |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **carry** | can | you | the little girl |  |  |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 3 | **set down** | past | you *not said here* | girl |  |  |  | by the large bush | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by bush=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | present | the large bush |  |  | the snow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in snow=Location |
| 5 | **cover** | participle |  | the snow *not said here* |  |  |  | with red berries | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with berry=Theme |

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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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