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title: The maiden up here on the mountain was fresh as the new fallen snow,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden up here on the mountain was fresh as the new fallen snow, blooming as an Alpine rose, and as nimble-footed as a young kid. Who acts: maiden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 47

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The maiden up here on the mountain was fresh as the new fallen snow, blooming as an Alpine rose, and as nimble-footed as a young kid.

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**Who acts:** maiden · **What happens:** be, fall, bloom

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:63:47
# text = The maiden up here on the mountain was fresh as the new fallen snow, blooming as an Alpine rose, and as nimble-footed as a young kid.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	nimble	nimble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the maiden on the mountain |  |  |  |  | as the new fallen snow; fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bloom** | gerund | the maiden on the mountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a Alpine rose | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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