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title: In the fresh, green fir-wood, where the snow lay all around, stood t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the fresh, green fir-wood, where the snow lay all around, stood the angel of Christmas, and consecrated the young trees that were to adorn his feast. Who acts: snow, young trees. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 135

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In the fresh, green fir-wood, where the snow lay all around, stood the angel of Christmas, and consecrated the young trees that were to adorn his feast.

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**Who acts:** snow, young trees · **What happens:** lie, stand, consecrate, adorn · **To what, where:** angel, fresh green fir wood, young trees, feast

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, young trees), 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:pg27200:214:135
# text = In the fresh, green fir-wood, where the snow lay all around, stood the angel of Christmas, and consecrated the young trees that were to adorn his feast.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	around	around	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	adorn	adorn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | the angel of Christmas |  | the fresh green fir wood |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent angel=Theme in wood=Destination |
| 3 | **consecrate** | past |  | the young trees |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 4 | **adorn** | past | the young trees | snow's feast |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feast=Destination |

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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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