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title: There were more than a hundred rooms in it, all as if they had been… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There were more than a hundred rooms in it, all as if they had been formed with snow blown together. Who acts: hundred rooms. 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, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 2

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There were more than a hundred rooms in it, all as if they had been formed with snow blown together.

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**Who acts:** hundred rooms · **What happens:** be, form, blow · **To what, where:** rooms, snow

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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 (hundred rooms), 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:pg27200:176:2
# text = There were more than a hundred rooms in it, all as if they had been formed with snow blown together.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | hundred rooms in snow |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **form** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | rooms *= room* |  |  |  | with snow | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** | participle |  | snow *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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