--- title: Very soon they recognized the large town where they lived, and the t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Very soon they recognized the large town where they lived, and the tall steeples of the churches, in which the sweet bells were ringing a merry peal as they entered it, and found their way to their grandmother's door. Who acts: hands, tall steeples. 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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 (hands, tall steeples), 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:pg27200:176:55 # text = Very soon they recognized the large town where they lived, and the tall steeples of the churches, in which the sweet bells were ringing a merry peal as they entered it, and found their way to their grandmother's door. 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 recognized recognize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 steeples steeple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 churches church NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 ringing ring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 peal peal NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 's 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recognize** | past | hands *= hand* | the large town | | | | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus | | 2 | **live** | past | hands *= hand* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **ring** | past · progressive | the tall steeples of the churches | a merry peal | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peal=Theme | | 4 | **enter** | past | hands *= hand* | peal | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 5 | **find** | past | hands *= hand* *not said here* | hands's way | | | | to hands's grandmother's door | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/56/) - ↑ 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/)