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title: He could see the edges of the glaciers, looking like green glass aga… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He could see the edges of the glaciers, looking like green glass against the soiled snow, and the deep chasms beneath the loftiest glacier. Who acts: house. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 97

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He could see the edges of the glaciers, looking like green glass against the soiled snow, and the deep chasms beneath the loftiest glacier.

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**Who acts:** house · **What happens:** see, look, soil · **To what, where:** edges, deep chasms

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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 (house), 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:pg27200:55:97
# text = He could see the edges of the glaciers, looking like green glass against the soiled snow, and the deep chasms beneath the loftiest glacier.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	soiled	soil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	chasms	chasm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	loftiest	lofty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	glacier	glacier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | house | the edges of the glaciers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer edge=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | house *not said here* | the deep chasms beneath the loftiest glacier |  |  |  | like green glass against the soiled snow | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **soil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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