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title: The Alps appeared to him like the wings of earth folded together; un… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Alps appeared to him like the wings of earth folded together; unfolded, they would display the variegated pictures of dark woods, foaming waters, spreading clouds, and masses of snow. " Who acts: Alps. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 83

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The Alps appeared to him like the wings of earth folded together; unfolded, they would display the variegated pictures of dark woods, foaming waters, spreading clouds, and masses of snow. "

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**Who acts:** Alps · **What happens:** appear, fold, unfold, display, foam, spread · **To what, where:** masses, Kjoge, earth, variegated pictures, waters, clouds

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alps), 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:pg27200:203:83
# text = The Alps appeared to him like the wings of earth folded together; unfolded, they would display the variegated pictures of dark woods, foaming waters, spreading clouds, and masses of snow. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	unfolded	unfold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	display	display	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	variegated	variegated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	foaming	foam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
27	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
30	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the Alps | masses of snow | Kjoge |  |  | like the wings of earth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fold** | participle |  | earth *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **unfold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **display** | would | Alps *= alp* | the variegated pictures of dark woods |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
| 5 | **foam** | gerund | Alps *= alp* *not said here* | waters |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme |
| 6 | **spread** | gerund | Alps *= alp* *not said here* | clouds |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=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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