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title: It was not long after this, that Kay came one day with large gloves… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not long after this, that Kay came one day with large gloves on, and his little sledge at his back, and bawled right into Gerda's ears, “I have permission to go out into the square where the others are playing”; and off he was in a moment. Who acts: fault, Kay, others, other. A sentence of «A
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 88

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It was not long after this, that Kay came one day with large gloves on, and his little sledge at his back, and bawled right into Gerda's ears, “I have permission to go out into the square where the others are playing”; and off he was in a moment.

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**Who acts:** fault, Kay, others, other · **What happens:** not be, come, bawl, have, go out, play · **To what, where:** little sledge, ears, permission, square · **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 (fault, Kay, others, other), 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:pg1597:11:88
# text = It was not long after this, that Kay came one day with large gloves on, and his little sledge at his back, and bawled right into Gerda's ears, “I have permission to go out into the square where the others are playing”; and off he was in a moment.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bawled	bawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	right	right	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
40	out	out	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	48	advmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
47	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	off	off	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | fault |  |  |  | after this | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | Kay | sun's little sledge at sun's back |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bawl** *speech: other* | past | Kay *not said here* |  |  | Gerda's ears |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into ear=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Kay | permission |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient |
| 5 | **go out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Kay *not said here* | permission *not said here* |  | the square |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **play** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the others |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | other |  |  |  | in a moment | off *property* | tree rules |

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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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