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title: They are wonderful to behold, and therefore in the summer time stran… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They are wonderful to behold, and therefore in the summer time strangers come here from all parts of the world to see them. Who acts: glaciers, time strangers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 6

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They are wonderful to behold, and therefore in the summer time strangers come here from all parts of the world to see them.

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**Who acts:** glaciers, time strangers · **What happens:** be, come, see · **To what, where:** parts, 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 (glaciers, time strangers), 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:pg27200:52:6
# text = They are wonderful to behold, and therefore in the summer time strangers come here from all parts of the world to see them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | glaciers *= glacier* |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | the time strangers |  |  | all parts of the world; here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from part=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the time strangers *not said here* | glaciers *= glacier* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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