--- title: Presently she sailed by a large cherry-orchard, where was a little c… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Presently she sailed by a large cherry-orchard, where was a little cottage with curious red and blue windows; it was thatched, and before it two wooden soldiers stood sentry, and presented arms when anyone went past. Who acts: Gerda, two wooden soldiers, anyone. 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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, two wooden soldiers, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:12:28 # text = Presently she sailed by a large cherry-orchard, where was a little cottage with curious red and blue windows; it was thatched, and before it two wooden soldiers stood sentry, and presented arms when anyone went past. 1 Presently presently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 cherry cherry NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 orchard orchard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 17 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 18 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 thatched thatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 before before ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 sentry sentry NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 presented present VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 38 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 40 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 41 nsubj _ _ 41 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 42 past past ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | past | Gerda | | | | | by a large cherry orchard; presently *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | | a little cottage | | | | with curious red windows | tree rules | | 3 | **thatch** | past · passive | | cottage | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | | 4 | **stand** | past | two wooden soldiers | sentry | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sentry=Stimulus | | 5 | **present** | past | Gerda *not said here* | arms | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 6 | **go past** | past | anyone | | | | | past *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/29/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/)