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title: Next morning the sun shone in upon the little flattened Snowdrop, th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning the sun shone in upon the little flattened Snowdrop, that looked as if it had been painted upon the floor. Who acts: sun, flattened Snowdrop. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 69

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Next morning the sun shone in upon the little flattened Snowdrop, that looked as if it had been painted upon the floor.

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**Who acts:** sun, flattened Snowdrop · **What happens:** shine, flatten, look, paint · **To what, where:** flattened Snowdrop, little, sun, floor

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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 (sun, flattened Snowdrop), 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:pg27200:177:69
# text = Next morning the sun shone in upon the little flattened Snowdrop, that looked as if it had been painted upon the floor.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	flattened	flatten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  | the flattened Snowdrop | morning |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon snowdrop=Location |
| 2 | **flatten** | participle |  | little |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | past | the flattened Snowdrop |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **paint** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | sun |  | the floor |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon floor=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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