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title: The roses out on the roof were in full bloom, and peeped in at the w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The roses out on the roof were in full bloom, and peeped in at the window; and there stood the little chairs, on which they had sat when children; and Kay and Gerda seated themselves each on their own chair, and held each other by the hand, while the cold empty grandeur of the Snow Queen's palace va
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 58

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The roses out on the roof were in full bloom, and peeped in at the window; and there stood the little chairs, on which they had sat when children; and Kay and Gerda seated themselves each on their own chair, and held each other by the hand, while the cold empty grandeur of the Snow Queen's palace vanished from their memories like a painful dream.

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**Who acts:** roses, full bloom, Kay, cold empty grandeur · **What happens:** be, peep in, stand, sit, seat, hold · **To what, where:** full bloom, little chairs, children, Roses, own chair, each

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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 (roses, full bloom, Kay, cold empty grandeur), 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:pg27200:176:58
# text = The roses out on the roof were in full bloom, and peeped in at the window; and there stood the little chairs, on which they had sat when children; and Kay and Gerda seated themselves each on their own chair, and held each other by the hand, while the cold empty grandeur of the Snow Queen's palace vanished from their memories like a painful dream.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	obj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
48	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	47	obj	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	fixed	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
54	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
56	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nsubj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	's	's	PART	POS	_	62	case	_	_
64	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	_
65	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
66	from	from	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	68	nmod:poss	_	_
68	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obl	_	_
69	like	like	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
70	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
71	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
72	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the roses on the roof |  |  | full bloom |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **peep in** | past | full bloom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | full bloom *not said here* | the little chairs |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chair=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sit** | past · perfect | Roses *= rose* | children |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent child=Theme on which=Location |
| 5 | **seat** | past | Kay and Gerda | Roses *= rose* |  | hands's own chair |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hold** | past | full bloom *not said here* | each |  |  |  | by the hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by hand=Location |
| 7 | **vanish** | past | the cold empty grandeur of the Snow Queen's palace |  |  | hands's memories like a painful dream |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from memory=Initial\_Location |

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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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