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title: It was quite early; she kissed her old grandmother, who was still as… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was quite early; she kissed her old grandmother, who was still asleep, put on her red shoes, and went alone to the river. Who acts: river, Gerda, old grandmother. 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
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 15

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It was quite early; she kissed her old grandmother, who was still asleep, put on her red shoes, and went alone to the river.

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**Who acts:** river, Gerda, old grandmother · **What happens:** be, kiss, put, go · **To what, where:** old grandmother, red shoes, river

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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 (river, Gerda, old grandmother), 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:pg1597:12:15
# text = It was quite early; she kissed her old grandmother, who was still asleep, put on her red shoes, and went alone to the river.
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	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | river |  |  |  |  | early *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | Gerda | Gerda's old grandmother |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Gerda's old grandmother |  |  |  | still | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | participle | Gerda's old grandmother *not said here* |  |  | Gerda's red shoes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination |
| 5 | **go** | past | Gerda *not said here* |  |  | the river |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial\_Location |

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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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