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title: More powerful than the sunbeam that dissolves the man of snow which… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: More powerful than the sunbeam that dissolves the man of snow which the children have raised, more quickly than the snowflake melts and becomes a drop of water on the warm lips of a child, was the stony form of Inge changed, and as a little bird she soared, with the speed of lightning, upward to the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 80

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More powerful than the sunbeam that dissolves the man of snow which the children have raised, more quickly than the snowflake melts and becomes a drop of water on the warm lips of a child, was the stony form of Inge changed, and as a little bird she soared, with the speed of lightning, upward to the world of mortals.

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**Who acts:** sunbeam, snowflake, Inge · **What happens:** dissolve, raise, melt, become, be, change · **To what, where:** man, children, drop, stony form, speed

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunbeam, snowflake, Inge), 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:pg27200:37:80
# text = More powerful than the sunbeam that dissolves the man of snow which the children have raised, more quickly than the snowflake melts and becomes a drop of water on the warm lips of a child, was the stony form of Inge changed, and as a little bird she soared, with the speed of lightning, upward to the world of mortals.
1	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
2	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	snowflake	snowflake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
42	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	Inge	Inge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
60	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
61	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissolve** | present | the sunbeam | the man of snow |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 2 | **raise** | present · perfect · passive |  | which children |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **melt** | present | the snowflake |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | present | the snowflake *not said here* | a drop of water on the warm lips of a child |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the stony form |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **change** | past | Inge |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **soar** | past | snowflake | the speed of lightning and the world of mortals |  |  |  | as a little bird | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent speed=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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