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title: The steam that rose formed itself into such horrible shapes that no… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The steam that rose formed itself into such horrible shapes that no one could look at them without fear. Who acts: such horrible shapes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 29

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The steam that rose formed itself into such horrible shapes that no one could look at them without fear.

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**Who acts:** such horrible shapes · **What happens:** form, look · **To what, where:** steam, such horrible shapes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such horrible shapes), 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:pg27200:77:29
# text = The steam that rose formed itself into such horrible shapes that no one could look at them without fear.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past · passive |  | the steam |  | such horrible shapes |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | could | such horrible shapes |  |  |  |  | at snakes *= snake*; without fear | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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