--- title: They looked up, and saw above them, on the over-hanging rock, the sn… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They looked up, and saw above them, on the over-hanging rock, the snow-covering heave and lift itself as a piece of linen stretched on the ground to dry raises itself when the wind creeps under it. Who acts: danger, wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/39/) [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/) / [III. the Uncle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/) / 39 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 39 They looked up, and saw above them, on the over-hanging rock, the snow-covering heave and lift itself as a piece of linen stretched on the ground to dry raises itself when the wind creeps under it. **Who acts:** danger, wind · **What happens:** look up, see, cover, lift, stretch, dry · **To what, where:** over-hanging rock, heave, linen, ground This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger, wind), 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:pg27200:54:39 # text = They looked up, and saw above them, on the over-hanging rock, the snow-covering heave and lift itself as a piece of linen stretched on the ground to dry raises itself when the wind creeps under it. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 7 above above ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 over-hanging over-hanging ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 covering cover VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 19 heave heave NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 lift lift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 22 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 dry dry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 34 raises raise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 35 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 obj _ _ 36 when when SCONJ WRB _ 39 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 creeps creep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 40 under under ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look up** | past | danger | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | | | | the over-hanging rock and the covering heave | | above danger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **cover** | gerund | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lift** | present | | heave | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 5 | **stretch** | participle | | linen *not said here* | | the ground | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **dry** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **raise** | present | | heave | | | | as a piece of linen | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 8 | **creep** | present | the wind | | | heave | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=Trajectory | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/40/) - ↑ back to [III. the Uncle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/)