--- title: Little Kay was quite blue with cold, indeed almost black, but he did… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Little Kay was quite blue with cold, indeed almost black, but he did not feel it; for the Snow Queen had kissed away the icy shiverings, and his heart was already a lump of ice. Who acts: Little Kay, Kay, Snow Queen, heart. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Kay, Kay, Snow Queen, heart), 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:pg27200:176:10 # text = Little Kay was quite blue with cold, indeed almost black, but he did not feel it; for the Snow Queen had kissed away the icy shiverings, and his heart was already a lump of ice. 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 almost almost ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Snow Snow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 kissed kiss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 icy icy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 shiverings shivering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 already already ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 lump lump NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Little Kay | | | | | with cold; blue *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **feel** | past · do-support | Kay | lake | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **kiss** | past · perfect | the Snow Queen | | | | | away *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | Kay's heart | a lump | | | | of ice | tree rules | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/11/) - ↑ back to [Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/)