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title: The next morning she went to play with the flowers in the warm sunsh… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning she went to play with the flowers in the warm sunshine, and thus passed away a day. 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 52

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The next morning she went to play with the flowers in the warm sunshine, and thus passed away a day.

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**Who acts:** Gerda · **What happens:** go, play, pass away · **To what, where:** warm sunshine

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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:pg1597:12:52
# text = The next morning she went to play with the flowers in the warm sunshine, and thus passed away a day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Gerda |  |  |  | morning |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Gerda *not said here* |  |  | the warm sunshine |  | with the flowers | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme |
| 3 | **pass away** | participle | Gerda *not said here* |  |  |  | day | away, thus *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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