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title: They only came to see our mountain, to ascend Parnassus amid the sno… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They only came to see our mountain, to ascend Parnassus amid the snow and clouds, and to look at the strange black rocks which raised their steep sides near our hut. Who acts: Franks, strange black rocks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 40

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They only came to see our mountain, to ascend Parnassus amid the snow and clouds, and to look at the strange black rocks which raised their steep sides near our hut.

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**Who acts:** Franks, strange black rocks · **What happens:** come, see, ascend, look, raise · **To what, where:** mountain, Parnassus amid, steep sides, hut

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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 (Franks, strange black rocks), 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:pg27200:36:40
# text = They only came to see our mountain, to ascend Parnassus amid the snow and clouds, and to look at the strange black rocks which raised their steep sides near our hut.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	ascend	ascend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	Parnassus	Parnassus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	near	near	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Franks *= frank* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Franks *= frank* *not said here* | our mountain |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ascend** | to-infinitive | Franks *= frank* *not said here* | Parnassus amid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | Franks *= frank* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the strange black rocks | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at rock=Theme |
| 5 | **raise** | past | the strange black rocks | Franks's steep sides |  | our hut |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme near hut=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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