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title: The old woman feared that if Gerda should see the roses, she would t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman feared that if Gerda should see the roses, she would then think of her own, would remember little Kay, and run away from her. Who acts: old woman, Gerda, Woman. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 46

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The old woman feared that if Gerda should see the roses, she would then think of her own, would remember little Kay, and run away from her.

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**Who acts:** old woman, Gerda, Woman · **What happens:** fear, see, think, remember, run away · **To what, where:** roses, little Kay

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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 (old woman, Gerda, Woman), 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:pg1597:12:46
# text = The old woman feared that if Gerda should see the roses, she would then think of her own, would remember little Kay, and run away from her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | Gerda | the roses |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | would | Woman |  |  |  | then | of Woman's own | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remember** | would | Woman *not said here* | little Kay |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kay=Theme |
| 5 | **run away** | present | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from Woman; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory |

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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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