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title: The Sunbeams caressed and kissed it, so that it opened altogether, w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sunbeams caressed and kissed it, so that it opened altogether, white as snow, and ornamented with green stripes. Who acts: Sunbeams, snow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 17

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The Sunbeams caressed and kissed it, so that it opened altogether, white as snow, and ornamented with green stripes.

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**Who acts:** Sunbeams, snow · **What happens:** caress, kiss, open, ornament · **To what, where:** snow

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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 (Sunbeams, snow), 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:pg27200:177:17
# text = The Sunbeams caressed and kissed it, so that it opened altogether, white as snow, and ornamented with green stripes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caressed	caress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	11	mark	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **caress** | past | the Sunbeams |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | the Sunbeams *not said here* | snow |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **open** | past | snow |  |  |  |  | altogether, white *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ornament** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with green stripes | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stripe=Theme |

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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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