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title: The white form of Winter sat there still, with his un-wandering gaze… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The white form of Winter sat there still, with his un-wandering gaze fixed on the south. Who acts: white form, form. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 60

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The white form of Winter sat there still, with his un-wandering gaze fixed on the south.

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**Who acts:** white form, form · **What happens:** sit, fix, form, gaze · **To what, where:** un-wandering gaze, south, Winter

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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 (white form, form), 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:pg27200:214:60
# text = The white form of Winter sat there still, with his un-wandering gaze fixed on the south.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	un-wandering	un-wandering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gaze	gaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the white form of Winter |  |  | there | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fix** | participle |  | form's un-wandering gaze *not said here* |  | the south |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | Winter |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **gaze** |  | form |  |  |  |  |  | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=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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