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title: Cutting winds were raging around her, but she offered up a prayer an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Cutting winds were raging around her, but she offered up a prayer and the winds sank down as if they were going to sleep; and she went on till she came to the large empty hall, and caught sight of Kay; she knew him directly; she flew to him and threw her arms round his neck, and held him fast, while
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 21

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Cutting winds were raging around her, but she offered up a prayer and the winds sank down as if they were going to sleep; and she went on till she came to the large empty hall, and caught sight of Kay; she knew him directly; she flew to him and threw her arms round his neck, and held him fast, while she exclaimed, "Kay, dear little Kay, I have found you at last."

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**Who acts:** Gerda, winds · **What happens:** cut, rage, offer up, sink down, go, sleep · **To what, where:** winds, prayer, large empty hall, sight, Kay, arms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gerda, winds), 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:pg27200:176:21
# text = Cutting winds were raging around her, but she offered up a prayer and the winds sank down as if they were going to sleep; and she went on till she came to the large empty hall, and caught sight of Kay; she knew him directly; she flew to him and threw her arms round his neck, and held him fast, while she exclaimed, "Kay, dear little Kay, I have found you at last."
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
30	on	on	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
42	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
57	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
59	round	round	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
65	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	_
66	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
68	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	70	mark	_	_
69	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
70	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
72	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	73	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	70	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	77	punct	_	_
75	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	77	amod	_	_
76	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	77	amod	_	_
77	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	73	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	81	punct	_	_
79	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	81	nsubj	_	_
80	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	81	aux	_	_
81	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	52	conj	_	_
82	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	81	obj	_	_
83	at	at	ADP	IN	_	84	case	_	_
84	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	81	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | gerund |  | winds |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wind=Product |
| 2 | **rage** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | around Gerda | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Location |
| 3 | **offer up** | past | Gerda | a prayer |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme |
| 4 | **sink down** | past | the winds |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | past · progressive | winds *= wind* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | winds *= wind* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **go on** | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **come** | past | Gerda |  |  | the large empty hall |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **catch** | past | Gerda *not said here* | sight of Kay |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 10 | **know** | past | Gerda | Kay |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 11 | **fly** | past | Gerda |  | Kay |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |
| 12 | **throw** | past | Gerda *not said here* | Gerda's arms |  |  |  | round Kay's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 13 | **hold** | past | Gerda *not said here* | Kay |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 14 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Gerda | Kay and dear little Kay |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kay=Topic |
| 15 | **find** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Gerda | you |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme at last=Asset |
| 16 | **sight** |  |  | Kay |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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