--- title: And with white locks and snowy beard, cold, bent, and hoary, but str… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And with white locks and snowy beard, cold, bent, and hoary, but strong as the wintry storm, and firm as the ice, old Winter sat on the snowdrift-covered hill, looking towards the south, where Winter had sat before, and gazed. Who acts: Winter. 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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 (Winter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:214:146 # text = And with white locks and snowy beard, cold, bent, and hoary, but strong as the wintry storm, and firm as the ice, old Winter sat on the snowdrift-covered hill, looking towards the south, where Winter had sat before, and gazed. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 bent bent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 hoary hoary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 wintry wintry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ _ 30 Winter Winter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 snowdrift snowdrift NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 37 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 40 towards towards ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 47 advmod _ _ 45 Winter Winter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 sat sit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 48 before before ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | Winter | | | the covered hill | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | gerund | Winter *not said here* | | | | | towards the south | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards south=Theme | | 4 | **sit** | past · perfect | Winter | | | | | before *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **gaze** | past | Winter *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/145/) - next →: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/147/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/)