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title: They had bound themselves fast to each other, so that they looked li… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had bound themselves fast to each other, so that they looked like one large body on the slippery plains of ice encircling the deep abyss. Who acts: fields, ice. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 18

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They had bound themselves fast to each other, so that they looked like one large body on the slippery plains of ice encircling the deep abyss.

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**Who acts:** fields, ice · **What happens:** bind, look, encircle · **To what, where:** fields, deep abyss

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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 (fields, ice), 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:pg27200:60:18
# text = They had bound themselves fast to each other, so that they looked like one large body on the slippery plains of ice encircling the deep abyss.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	encircling	encircle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | past · perfect · passive |  | fields *= field* |  |  |  | to each; fast *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past | fields *= field* |  |  |  |  | like one large body; on the slippery plains of ice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on plain=Theme |
| 3 | **encircle** | gerund | ice *not said here* | the deep abyss |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme abyss=Co-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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