--- title: And so the Snowdrop was put back into the book, and felt equally hon… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And so the Snowdrop was put back into the book, and felt equally honored and pleased to know that it was a token in the glorious book of songs, and that he who was the first to sing and to write had been also a snowdrop, had been a summer gauk, and had been looked upon in the winter-time as a fool. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/) / 81 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 81 And so the Snowdrop was put back into the book, and felt equally honored and pleased to know that it was a token in the glorious book of songs, and that he who was the first to sing and to write had been also a snowdrop, had been a summer gauk, and had been looked upon in the winter-time as a fool. **Who acts:** Snowdrop, fool · **What happens:** put back, feel, honor, know, be, sing · **To what, where:** Snowdrop, book, token, glorious book, summer gauk · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Snowdrop, fool), 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:pg27200:177:81 # text = And so the Snowdrop was put back into the book, and felt equally honored and pleased to know that it was a token in the glorious book of songs, and that he who was the first to sing and to write had been also a snowdrop, had been a summer gauk, and had been looked upon in the winter-time as a fool. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Snowdrop Snowdrop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 equally equally ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 honored honor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 token token NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 glorious glorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 44 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 45 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 48 cop _ _ 46 also also ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 snowdrop snowdrop NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 51 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 54 cop _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 gauk gauk NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 57 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 aux _ _ 58 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 59 aux:pass _ _ 59 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 60 upon upon ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 61 in in ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 63 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 64 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obl _ _ 66 as as ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put back** | past · passive | | the Snowdrop | | the book | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | | 2 | **feel** | past | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **honor** | participle | | | | | | equally *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | past | Snowdrop | a token | | the glorious book of songs | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | fool | | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **write** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | past · perfect | | a snowdrop and a summer gauk | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **is a** | past · perfect | | a summer gauk | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **look** | past · perfect · passive | | | | | time | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» | 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/82/) - ↑ back to [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/)