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title: Some newly fallen snow concealed a cleft which, though it did not ex… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Some newly fallen snow concealed a cleft which, though it did not extend to the foaming waters in the depths beneath, was still much deeper than the height of a man. Who acts: fallen snow, snow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 64

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Some newly fallen snow concealed a cleft which, though it did not extend to the foaming waters in the depths beneath, was still much deeper than the height of a man.

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**Who acts:** fallen snow, snow · **What happens:** fall, conceal, not extend, be · **To what, where:** cleft, foaming waters

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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 (fallen snow, snow), 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:pg27200:52:64
# text = Some newly fallen snow concealed a cleft which, though it did not extend to the foaming waters in the depths beneath, was still much deeper than the height of a man.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	extend	extend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	foaming	foaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **conceal** | past | some fallen snow | a cleft |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleft=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **extend** | past · do-support | snow |  | the foaming waters in the depths |  |  | beneath *property* | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to water=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | some fallen snow *not said here* |  |  |  | still | than the height of a man; deep *property* | tree rules |

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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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