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title: And Gerda went to the Ranunculuses, that looked forth from among the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Gerda went to the Ranunculuses, that looked forth from among the shining green leaves. Who acts: Gerda, Ranunculuses. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 116

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And Gerda went to the Ranunculuses, that looked forth from among the shining green leaves.

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**Who acts:** Gerda, Ranunculuses · **What happens:** go, look, shine · **To what, where:** Ranunculuses

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, Ranunculuses), 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:pg1597:12:116
# text = And Gerda went to the Ranunculuses, that looked forth from among the shining green leaves.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Ranunculuses	ranunculus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Gerda |  |  | the Ranunculuses |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ranunculus=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | the Ranunculuses |  |  |  |  | from the shining green leaves; forth *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from leaf=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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