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title: At times the snow would be piled so high around our hut as almost to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At times the snow would be piled so high around our hut as almost to hide it, and then my mother appeared most cheerful. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 11

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At times the snow would be piled so high around our hut as almost to hide it, and then my mother appeared most cheerful.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** pile, hide, appear · **To what, where:** snow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg27200:36:11
# text = At times the snow would be piled so high around our hut as almost to hide it, and then my mother appeared most cheerful.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile** | would · passive |  | the snow |  |  | time | high *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive |  | snow |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **appear** | past | my mother |  |  |  | then | cheerful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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