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title: From thence she throws her far-seeing glance into the deep valley be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: From thence she throws her far-seeing glance into the deep valley beneath, where human beings are busily moving about like ants on a stone in the sun. "Spirits of strength, as the children of the sun call you," cried the Ice Maiden, "ye are but worms! Who acts: Geneva, human beings, children, Ice Ma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 3

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From thence she throws her far-seeing glance into the deep valley beneath, where human beings are busily moving about like ants on a stone in the sun. "Spirits of strength, as the children of the sun call you," cried the Ice Maiden, "ye are but worms!

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**Who acts:** Geneva, human beings, children, Ice Maiden, ye · **What happens:** throw, see, move about, call, cry, be · **To what, where:** far seeing glance, deep valley, stone, you, worms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Geneva, human beings, children, Ice Maiden), 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:pg27200:60:3
# text = From thence she throws her far-seeing glance into the deep valley beneath, where human beings are busily moving about like ants on a stone in the sun. "Spirits of strength, as the children of the sun call you," cried the Ice Maiden, "ye are but worms!
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
17	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
46	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	55	nsubj	_	_
53	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | present | Geneva | Geneva's far seeing glance |  |  |  | into the deep valley *result*; beneath, thence *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer glance=Theme into valley=Result |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **move about** | present · progressive | human beings |  |  | a stone |  | like ants; in the sun. and Spirits of strength; about, busily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** *in a quote* | present | the children of the sun |  | you |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Ice Maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | ye | worms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **glance** |  | Geneva |  |  |  |  |  | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=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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