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title: The Ice Maiden, for she it was, kissed him, and her kiss sent a chil… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ice Maiden, for she it was, kissed him, and her kiss sent a chill as of ice through his whole frame. Who acts: Ice Maiden, kiss, death. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 53

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The Ice Maiden, for she it was, kissed him, and her kiss sent a chill as of ice through his whole frame.

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**Who acts:** Ice Maiden, kiss, death · **What happens:** be, send, kiss · **To what, where:** chill, whole frame

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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 (Ice Maiden, kiss, death), 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:pg27200:63:53
# text = The Ice Maiden, for she it was, kissed him, and her kiss sent a chill as of ice through his whole frame.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chill	chill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Ice Maiden for death |  |  |  |  | kiss *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | death's kiss | a chill |  | Maiden's whole frame |  | as ice | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chill=Theme |
| 3 | **kiss** |  | death |  |  |  |  |  | nom kiss «act transitive»: 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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