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title: Gerda jumped for joy, and played till the sun set behind the tall ch… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gerda jumped for joy, and played till the sun set behind the tall cherry-tree; she then had a pretty bed, with a red silken coverlet filled with blue violets. 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 pragmatic
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 50

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Gerda jumped for joy, and played till the sun set behind the tall cherry-tree; she then had a pretty bed, with a red silken coverlet filled with blue violets.

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**Who acts:** Gerda · **What happens:** jump, play, set, have, fill · **To what, where:** sun, tall cherry tree, pretty bed, red silken coverlet

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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:pg1597:12:50
# text = Gerda jumped for joy, and played till the sun set behind the tall cherry-tree; she then had a pretty bed, with a red silken coverlet filled with blue violets.
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | past | Gerda *not said here* |  |  |  | till the sun |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | participle |  | the sun *not said here* |  | the tall cherry tree |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind tree=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past | Gerda | a pretty bed |  |  | then | with a red silken coverlet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
| 5 | **fill** | participle |  | a red silken coverlet *not said here* |  |  |  | with blue violets | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with violet=Instrument |

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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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