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title: And away flew the Snow Queen, leaving little Kay quite alone in the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 19

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And away flew the Snow Queen, leaving little Kay quite alone in the great hall which was so many miles in length; so he sat and looked at his pieces of ice, and was thinking so deeply, and sat so still, that any one might have supposed he was frozen.

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**Who acts:** Kay · **What happens:** fly, leave, sit, look, think, suppose · **To what, where:** Snow Queen, little Kay, great hall, one, Kay

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (Kay), 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:pg27200:176:19
# text = And away flew the Snow Queen, leaving little Kay quite alone in the great hall which was so many miles in length; so he sat and looked at his pieces of ice, and was thinking so deeply, and sat so still, that any one might have supposed he was frozen.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	49	det	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux	_	_
52	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	conj	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past |  | the Snow Queen |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund |  | little Kay |  | the great hall |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kay=Theme in hall=Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Kay |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | past | Kay *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Kay's pieces of ice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at piece=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sit** | past |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **suppose** | might · perfect · passive |  | any one |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 8 | **freeze** | past · passive |  | Kay |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |

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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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