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title: He ascended still higher, to a spot where a few rough blades of gras… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He ascended still higher, to a spot where a few rough blades of grass grew between the blocks of stone and the chamois passed quietly on over the snow-fields. Who acts: gentian, few rough blades, chamois. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, wit
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 8

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He ascended still higher, to a spot where a few rough blades of grass grew between the blocks of stone and the chamois passed quietly on over the snow-fields.

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**Who acts:** gentian, few rough blades, chamois · **What happens:** ascend, grow, pass · **To what, where:** spot, blocks, snow fields

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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 (gentian, few rough blades, chamois), 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:pg27200:63:8
# text = He ascended still higher, to a spot where a few rough blades of grass grew between the blocks of stone and the chamois passed quietly on over the snow-fields.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chamois	chamois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascend** | past | gentian |  |  | a spot |  | high *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **grow** | past | a few rough blades of grass |  |  | the blocks of stone |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between block=Location |
| 3 | **pass** | past | the chamois |  |  | the snow fields |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over field=Location |

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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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