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title: During the year these accumulations thaw or fall in the rolling aval… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: During the year these accumulations thaw or fall in the rolling avalance, or are piled up in shining glaciers. Who acts: accumulations. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 4

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During the year these accumulations thaw or fall in the rolling avalance, or are piled up in shining glaciers.

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**Who acts:** accumulations · **What happens:** thaw, fall, roll, pile up, shine · **To what, where:** rolling avalance, glaciers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accumulations), 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:pg27200:52:4
# text = During the year these accumulations thaw or fall in the rolling avalance, or are piled up in shining glaciers.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	accumulations	accumulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	thaw	thaw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	avalance	avalance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thaw** | present | this accumulations |  |  |  | year |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | present | this accumulations *not said here* |  |  | the rolling avalance |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in avalance=Location |
| 3 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pile up** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination» |
| 5 | **shine** | gerund |  | glaciers |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glacier=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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