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title: The snow lay piled up in great heaps, and of these the sailors made… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The snow lay piled up in great heaps, and of these the sailors made huts, in the form of bee-hives, some of them as large and spacious as one of the "Huns' graves," and others only containing room enough to hold three or four men. Who acts: snow, sailors. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 4

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The snow lay piled up in great heaps, and of these the sailors made huts, in the form of bee-hives, some of them as large and spacious as one of the "Huns' graves," and others only containing room enough to hold three or four men.

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**Who acts:** snow, sailors · **What happens:** lie, pile up, make, contain, hold, form · **To what, where:** great heaps, huts, form, room, three men, bee hives

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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 (snow, sailors), 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:pg27200:205:4
# text = The snow lay piled up in great heaps, and of these the sailors made huts, in the form of bee-hives, some of them as large and spacious as one of the "Huns' graves," and others only containing room enough to hold three or four men.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	hives	hive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Huns	Hun	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
45	only	only	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
47	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
51	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	conj	_	_
54	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the snow |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pile up** | participle | the snow *not said here* |  |  | great heaps |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in heap=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past | this sailors | huts |  | the form of bee hives |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | the snow *not said here* | room |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot room=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | to-infinitive | the snow *not said here* | three men |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | bee hives |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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