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title: Gerda was obliged to rest herself again, when, exactly opposite to h… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gerda was obliged to rest herself again, when, exactly opposite to her, a large Raven came hopping over the white snow. Who acts: large Raven. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 10

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Gerda was obliged to rest herself again, when, exactly opposite to her, a large Raven came hopping over the white snow.

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**Who acts:** large Raven · **What happens:** oblige, rest, come, hop · **To what, where:** Gerda, white snow

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large Raven), 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:pg1597:13:10
# text = Gerda was obliged to rest herself again, when, exactly opposite to her, a large Raven came hopping over the white snow.
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Gerda |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  | Gerda |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | a large Raven |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hop** | gerund | a large Raven *not said here* |  |  | the white snow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over snow=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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