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title: One snow-capped peak after another rose before him, till the whole o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One snow-capped peak after another rose before him, till the whole of the glittering Alpine range became visible. Who acts: One capped peak. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 88

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One snow-capped peak after another rose before him, till the whole of the glittering Alpine range became visible.

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**Who acts:** One capped peak · **What happens:** cap, glitter, become

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One capped peak), 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:pg27200:55:88
# text = One snow-capped peak after another rose before him, till the whole of the glittering Alpine range became visible.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	capped	cap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
18	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | One capped peak after another rose before valley |  |  |  |  | visible *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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