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title: Sometimes, in winter, when the snow lay white and glittering on the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes, in winter, when the snow lay white and glittering on the ground, a hare would come springing along, and jump right over the little tree; and then how mortified it would feel! Who acts: snow, hare. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 8

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Sometimes, in winter, when the snow lay white and glittering on the ground, a hare would come springing along, and jump right over the little tree; and then how mortified it would feel!

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**Who acts:** snow, hare · **What happens:** lie, glitter, come, spring, jump, mortify · **To what, where:** ground, little tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, hare), 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:pg27200:33:8
# text = Sometimes, in winter, when the snow lay white and glittering on the ground, a hare would come springing along, and jump right over the little tree; and then how mortified it would feel!
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	along	along	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	right	right	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
34	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
35	mortified	mortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 |  |  |  | winter | sometimes, white *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund | the snow *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
| 3 | **come** | would | a hare |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spring** | gerund | a hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **jump** | infinitive | a hare *not said here* |  |  | the little tree |  | right *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Trajectory |
| 6 | **mortify** | participle | the snow *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **feel** | would | hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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