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title: Vertigo and the Ice Maiden clutch at human beings, as the polypus se… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Vertigo and the Ice Maiden clutch at human beings, as the polypus seizes upon all that comes within its reach. Who acts: polypus, that. 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 85

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Vertigo and the Ice Maiden clutch at human beings, as the polypus seizes upon all that comes within its reach.

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**Who acts:** polypus, that · **What happens:** seize, come

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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 (polypus, that), 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:pg27200:52:85
# text = Vertigo and the Ice Maiden clutch at human beings, as the polypus seizes upon all that comes within its reach.
1	Vertigo	vertigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	clutch	clutch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	polypus	polypus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seizes	seize	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | present | the polypus |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | that |  |  |  |  | within polypus's reach | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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