--- title: The root, spreading deep into the earth, the top rising high in the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The root, spreading deep into the earth, the top rising high in the fresh air, knew the value of the drifted snow, the keen wind, and the warm sunshine, as it ought to be known. ' Who acts: root, top. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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' **Who acts:** root, top · **What happens:** spread, rise, know, drift, value · **To what, where:** earth, fresh air, value, warm sunshine, drifted snow This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (root, top), 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:pg27200:180:48 # text = The root, spreading deep into the earth, the top rising high in the fresh air, knew the value of the drifted snow, the keen wind, and the warm sunshine, as it ought to be known. ' 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 spreading spread VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 deep deep ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 19 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 drifted drift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 keen keen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | gerund | the root *not said here* | | | the earth | | deep *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into earth=Destination | | 2 | **rise** | gerund | the top *not said here* | | | the fresh air | | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | | 3 | **know** | past | the root | the value of the drifted snow and the keen wind | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus | | 4 | **drift** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **know** | ought · passive | | the warm sunshine | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 6 | **value** | | | the drifted snow and the keen wind | | | | | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/49/) - ↑ back to [What the Second Mouse Had to Tell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/)