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title: Towards morning there was a great fall of snow; the wind drifted it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Towards morning there was a great fall of snow; the wind drifted it over him, but he still slept on. Who acts: great fall, wind, Joanna. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 40

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Towards morning there was a great fall of snow; the wind drifted it over him, but he still slept on.

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**Who acts:** great fall, wind, Joanna · **What happens:** be, drift, sleep on · **To what, where:** fall

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great fall, wind, Joanna), 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:pg27200:204:40
# text = Towards morning there was a great fall of snow; the wind drifted it over him, but he still slept on.
1	Towards	toward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	drifted	drift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a great fall of snow |  |  | there | morning |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drift** | past | the wind | fall |  |  |  | over Joanna | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme over he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **sleep on** | past | Joanna |  |  |  | still |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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