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title: Winter came, and the plant was covered with snow, but the snow glitt… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Winter came, and the plant was covered with snow, but the snow glittered over it as if it had sunshine beneath as well as above. Who acts: Winter, snow, leaf. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 9

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Winter came, and the plant was covered with snow, but the snow glittered over it as if it had sunshine beneath as well as above.

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**Who acts:** Winter, snow, leaf · **What happens:** come, cover, glitter, have · **To what, where:** plant, leaf, sunshine

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winter, snow, leaf), 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:pg27200:49:9
# text = Winter came, and the plant was covered with snow, but the snow glittered over it as if it had sunshine beneath as well as above.
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
27	above	above	ADV	RB	_	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Winter |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the plant |  |  |  | with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme |
| 3 | **glitter** | past | the snow | leaf |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | leaf | sunshine |  |  |  | beneath *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunshine=Patient |

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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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