--- title: And he looked all around him, and said, "How cold it is, and how lar… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And he looked all around him, and said, "How cold it is, and how large and empty it all looks," and he clung to Gerda, and she laughed and wept for joy. Who acts: Kay, child, Gerda. 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 (Kay, child, Gerda), 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:pg27200:176:28 # text = And he looked all around him, and said, "How cold it is, and how large and empty it all looks," and he clung to Gerda, and she laughed and wept for joy. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 around around ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 13 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 clung cling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | Kay | | | | | around splinter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kay *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | child | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **cling** | past | Kay | | Gerda | | | | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to gerda=Co-Theme | | 5 | **laugh** | past | Gerda | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **weep** | past | Gerda *not said here* | | | | | for joy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/29/) - ↑ 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/)