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title: The Snow-queen might come home now; his release--the word ‘Love’--st… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Snow-queen might come home now; his release--the word ‘Love’--stood written in sparkling ice. Who acts: Snow queen. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 130

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The Snow-queen might come home now; his release--the word ‘Love’--stood written in sparkling ice.

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**Who acts:** Snow queen · **What happens:** come, write · **To what, where:** release, sparkling ice

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow queen), 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:pg5615:10:130
# text = The Snow-queen might come home now; his release--the word ‘Love’--stood written in sparkling ice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | might | the Snow queen | Kay's release |  |  | now | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive |  |  |  | sparkling ice |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in ice=Destination |

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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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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