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title: Little spiders spun golden threads around it, and then it was hung w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Little spiders spun golden threads around it, and then it was hung with fluttering veils and flags so delicately white that they glittered like snow in the moonshine. Who acts: Little spiders, Maypole, spiders. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 35

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Little spiders spun golden threads around it, and then it was hung with fluttering veils and flags so delicately white that they glittered like snow in the moonshine.

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**Who acts:** Little spiders, Maypole, spiders · **What happens:** spin, be, flutter, glitter · **To what, where:** golden threads, Maypole, veils, moonshine

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little spiders, Maypole, spiders), 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:pg27200:179:35
# text = Little spiders spun golden threads around it, and then it was hung with fluttering veils and flags so delicately white that they glittered like snow in the moonshine.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	hung	hung	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	veils	veil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	delicately	delicately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	moonshine	moonshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | past | Little spiders | golden threads |  | Maypole |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thread=Theme around it=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | Maypole |  |  |  | then | hung *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **flutter** | gerund | Maypole *not said here* | veils and flags |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location veil=Theme |
| 4 | **glitter** | past | spiders *= spider* |  |  | the moonshine |  | like snow | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonshine=Location |

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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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