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title: She will sail on a frail pine-twig over the raging torrents beneath,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She will sail on a frail pine-twig over the raging torrents beneath, and spring lightly from one iceberg to another, with her long, snow-white hair flowing around her, and her dark-green robe glittering like the waters of the deep Swiss lakes. " Who acts: laughter, snow, white hair, dark green robe.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 73

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She will sail on a frail pine-twig over the raging torrents beneath, and spring lightly from one iceberg to another, with her long, snow-white hair flowing around her, and her dark-green robe glittering like the waters of the deep Swiss lakes. "

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**Who acts:** laughter, snow, white hair, dark green robe · **What happens:** sail, rage, hair, flow, glitter · **To what, where:** frail pine twig

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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 (laughter, snow, white hair, dark green robe), 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:pg27200:52:73
# text = She will sail on a frail pine-twig over the raging torrents beneath, and spring lightly from one iceberg to another, with her long, snow-white hair flowing around her, and her dark-green robe glittering like the waters of the deep Swiss lakes. "
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	frail	frail	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	iceberg	iceberg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	around	around	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
39	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
43	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
49	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	Swiss	swiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | future | laughter |  |  | a frail pine twig | spring | over the raging torrents; from one iceberg; to another; beneath, lightly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over torrent=Trajectory |
| 2 | **rage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hair** |  | snow |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **flow** | gerund | white hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around laughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Location |
| 5 | **glitter** | gerund | laughter's dark green robe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the waters of the deep Swiss lakes | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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