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title: It was not very large, and the floor was of lime; but when he danced… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not very large, and the floor was of lime; but when he danced with his bride on the lime-covered floor, it was to him white and shining, and from every stone in the wall flowers seemed to spring forth and decorate the room as with the richest tapestry. Who acts: house, floor, street. A senten
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 138

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It was not very large, and the floor was of lime; but when he danced with his bride on the lime-covered floor, it was to him white and shining, and from every stone in the wall flowers seemed to spring forth and decorate the room as with the richest tapestry.

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**Who acts:** house, floor, street · **What happens:** not be, be, dance, cover, shine, seem · **To what, where:** covered floor, stone, room

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, floor, street), 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:pg27200:177:138
# text = It was not very large, and the floor was of lime; but when he danced with his bride on the lime-covered floor, it was to him white and shining, and from every stone in the wall flowers seemed to spring forth and decorate the room as with the richest tapestry.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
44	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	decorate	decorate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	as	as	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	56	amod	_	_
56	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | house |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the floor |  |  |  |  | of lime | tree rules |
| 3 | **dance** | past | street |  |  | the covered floor |  | with street's bride | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | house |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **shine** | gerund | house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **seem** | past | house *not said here* |  |  | every stone in the wall flowers |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 8 | **spring** | to-infinitive | house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **decorate** | infinitive | house *not said here* | the room |  |  |  | as the richest tapestry | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Destination |

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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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