--- title: The glaciers appear as if a rushing stream had been frozen in its co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The glaciers appear as if a rushing stream had been frozen in its course, and pressed into blocks of green crystal, which, balanced one upon another, form a wondrous palace of crystal for the Ice Maiden--the queen of the glaciers. Who acts: glaciers, green crystal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/70/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [I. Little Rudy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/) / 70 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 70 The glaciers appear as if a rushing stream had been frozen in its course, and pressed into blocks of green crystal, which, balanced one upon another, form a wondrous palace of crystal for the Ice Maiden--the queen of the glaciers. **Who acts:** glaciers, green crystal · **What happens:** appear, rush, freeze, press, balance, form · **To what, where:** rushing stream, course, blocks, one, another, wondrous palace 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, green crystal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:52:70 # text = The glaciers appear as if a rushing stream had been frozen in its course, and pressed into blocks of green crystal, which, balanced one upon another, form a wondrous palace of crystal for the Ice Maiden--the queen of the glaciers. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 glaciers glacier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 rushing rush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 balanced balance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 obj _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 form form VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 wondrous wondrous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Ice Ice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 Maiden Maiden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 glaciers glacier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | present | the glaciers | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **rush** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **freeze** | past · perfect · passive | | a rushing stream | | world's course | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 4 | **press** | participle | the glaciers *not said here* | | | blocks of green crystal | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into block=Trajectory | | 5 | **balance** | past | green crystal | one | | another | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent one=Theme upon another=Location | | 6 | **form** | infinitive | | a wondrous palace of crystal for the Ice Maiden | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/71/) - ↑ back to [I. Little Rudy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/)