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title: Kay and Gerda looked at the picture-book full of beasts and of birds… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Kay and Gerda looked at the picture-book full of beasts and of birds; and it was then--the clock in the church-tower was just striking five--that Kay said, “Oh! Who acts: Kay, bird, clock. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 59

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Kay and Gerda looked at the picture-book full of beasts and of birds; and it was then--the clock in the church-tower was just striking five--that Kay said, “Oh!

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**Who acts:** Kay, bird, clock · **What happens:** look, be, strike, say · **To what, where:** clock, church tower, five · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, bird, clock), 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:pg1597:11:59
# text = Kay and Gerda looked at the picture-book full of beasts and of birds; and it was then--the clock in the church-tower was just striking five--that Kay said, “Oh!
1	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
32	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Kay and Gerda |  |  |  |  | at the picture book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at book=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | bird | the clock |  | the church tower | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **strike** | past · progressive | the clock | five |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kay |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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