--- title: The steam appeared to increase, as she continued her prayer, till it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The steam appeared to increase, as she continued her prayer, till it took the shape of little angels who grew larger the moment they touched the earth. Who acts: steam, it, little angels, shapes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (steam, it, little angels, shapes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:175:39 # text = The steam appeared to increase, as she continued her prayer, till it took the shape of little angels who grew larger the moment they touched the earth. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 increase increase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 angels angel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the steam | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **increase** | to-infinitive | the steam *not said here* | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **continue** | past | steam | steam's prayer | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | | 4 | **take** | past | it | the shape of little angels | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | past | little angels | | | | | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **touch** | past | shapes *= shape* | the earth | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme | | 7 | **pray** | | steam | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/40/) - ↑ back to [The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/)