--- title: In the midst of its empty, endless hall of snow was a frozen lake, b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the midst of its empty, endless hall of snow was a frozen lake, broken on its surface into a thousand forms; each piece resembled another, from being in itself perfect as a work of art, and in the centre of this lake sat the Snow Queen, when she was at home. Who acts: piece, flame, art. 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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 (piece, flame, art), 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:pg27200:176:8 # text = In the midst of its empty, endless hall of snow was a frozen lake, broken on its surface into a thousand forms; each piece resembled another, from being in itself perfect as a work of art, and in the centre of this lake sat the Snow Queen, when she was at home. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 6 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 endless endless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 resembled resemble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 29 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 cop _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 obl _ _ 35 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 det _ _ 48 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 Snow Snow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 58 advmod _ _ 55 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 56 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 cop _ _ 57 at at ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | past | | a frozen lake | | the midst of midst's empty endless hall of snow | | | tree rules | | 3 | **break** | participle | | a frozen lake *not said here* | | lake's surface | | into thousand forms | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Location | | 4 | **resemble** | past | each piece | another | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | gerund | each piece *not said here* | | | | | as a work of art; perfect *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **sit** | past | each piece *not said here* | the Snow Queen | | the centre of this lake | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme in centre=Location | | 7 | **is** | past | flame | | | home | | | tree rules | | 8 | **work** | | art | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/9/) - ↑ 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/)