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title: On the table stood the most exquisite cherries, and Gerda ate as man… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the table stood the most exquisite cherries, and Gerda ate as many as she chose, for she had permission to do so. Who acts: Gerda. 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 41

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On the table stood the most exquisite cherries, and Gerda ate as many as she chose, for she had permission to do so.

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**Who acts:** Gerda · **What happens:** stand, eat, choose, have, do · **To what, where:** exquisite cherries, table, many, permission

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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), 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:pg1597:12:41
# text = On the table stood the most exquisite cherries, and Gerda ate as many as she chose, for she had permission to do so.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | the exquisite cherries |  | the table |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cherry=Theme on table=Destination |
| 2 | **eat** | past | Gerda | many |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
| 3 | **choose** | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | Gerda | permission |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | Gerda *not said here* | permission *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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