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title: It was dark again in the snow-hut: but the Bible still rested beneat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was dark again in the snow-hut: but the Bible still rested beneath his head, and faith and hope dwelt in his heart. Who acts: vision, Bible, faith. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 29

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It was dark again in the snow-hut: but the Bible still rested beneath his head, and faith and hope dwelt in his heart.

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**Who acts:** vision, Bible, faith · **What happens:** be, rest, dwell · **To what, where:** snow hut, head, heart

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vision, Bible, faith), 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:pg27200:205:29
# text = It was dark again in the snow-hut: but the Bible still rested beneath his head, and faith and hope dwelt in his heart.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | vision |  |  | the snow hut | again | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rest** | past | the Bible |  |  | Bible's head | still |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent beneath head=Location |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | faith and hope |  |  | Bible's heart |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=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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