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title: The frost-flowers [47] peep from their winter sleep Under the snow-d… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The frost-flowers [47] peep from their winter sleep Under the snow-drifts cold and deep. Who acts: flowers. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 146

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The frost-flowers \[47\] peep from their winter sleep Under the snow-drifts cold and deep.

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**Who acts:** flowers · **What happens:** sleep · **To what, where:** frost flowers, snow drifts

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:7:146
# text = The frost-flowers [47] peep from their winter sleep Under the snow-drifts cold and deep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	47	47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	drifts	drift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **sleep** |  | flowers *= flower* |  |  | the snow drifts |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent under=place |

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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:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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