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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 19

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But they fell close to the bank, and the little waves bore them immediately to land; it was as if the stream would not take what was dearest to her; for in reality it had not got little Kay; but Gerda thought that she had not thrown the shoes out far enough, so she clambered into a boat which lay among the rushes, went to the farthest end, and threw out the shoes.

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**Who acts:** shoes, little waves, stream, Gerda, boat · **What happens:** fall, bear, land, not be, be, not get · **To what, where:** shoes, bank, Gerda, little Kay, boat, rushes

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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 (shoes, little waves, stream, Gerda), 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:pg1597:12:19
# text = But they fell close to the bank, and the little waves bore them immediately to land; it was as if the stream would not take what was dearest to her; for in reality it had not got little Kay; but Gerda thought that she had not thrown the shoes out far enough, so she clambered into a boat which lay among the rushes, went to the farthest end, and threw out the shoes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	expl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	ccomp	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
54	out	out	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
55	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	advmod	_	_
56	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	so	so	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
59	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	clambered	clamber	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
61	into	into	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
64	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	65	nsubj	_	_
65	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	acl:relcl	_	_
66	among	among	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
70	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	conj	_	_
71	to	to	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
73	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	74	amod	_	_
74	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	77	punct	_	_
76	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	77	cc	_	_
77	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
78	out	out	ADP	RP	_	77	compound:prt	_	_
79	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	80	det	_	_
80	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	77	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  | to the bank; close *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bank=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | past | the little waves | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **land** | to-infinitive | the little waves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | would · past | the stream | bank |  |  |  | take *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  | Gerda |  |  | dear *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **get** | past · perfect | stream | little Kay |  |  |  | for reality | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent kay=Theme for reality=Source |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **throw out** | past · perfect · passive |  | Gerda |  |  |  | far, out *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination shoe=Theme |
| 9 | **clamber** | past | Gerda |  |  | a boat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination |
| 10 | **lie** | past | a boat |  |  | the rushes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among rush=Location |
| 11 | **go** | past | Gerda *not said here* |  |  |  | to the farthest end |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 12 | **throw out** | past | Gerda *not said here* | the shoes |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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