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title: It rose, as a plume of feathers, from a steam engine, to which, on t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 11

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It rose, as a plume of feathers, from a steam engine, to which, on the lately-opened railway, a string of carriages was linked, carriage to carriage, looking like a winding serpent.

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**Who acts:** vapor · **What happens:** rise, open, link, look · **To what, where:** steam engine, opened railway

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vapor), 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:pg27200:60:11
# text = It rose, as a plume of feathers, from a steam engine, to which, on the lately-opened railway, a string of carriages was linked, carriage to carriage, looking like a winding serpent.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plume	plume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	lately	lately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	winding	winding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | vapor |  |  | a steam engine and carriage to carriage |  | as a plume of feathers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from engine=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **open** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **link** | past · passive |  | the opened railway |  |  |  | to a steam engine and carriage to carriage | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to which=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | vapor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a winding serpent | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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