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title: He sat beside Gerda, for he could not bear riding backwards; the oth… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He sat beside Gerda, for he could not bear riding backwards; the other Raven stood in the doorway, and flapped her wings; she could not accompany Gerda, because she suffered from headache since she had had a fixed appointment and ate so much. Who acts: Raven, other Raven, Gerda. A sentence of «Ander
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 126

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He sat beside Gerda, for he could not bear riding backwards; the other Raven stood in the doorway, and flapped her wings; she could not accompany Gerda, because she suffered from headache since she had had a fixed appointment and ate so much.

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**Who acts:** Raven, other Raven, Gerda · **What happens:** sit, not bear, ride, stand, flap, not accompany · **To what, where:** Gerda, doorway, wings, headache, fixed appointment

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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 (Raven, other Raven, 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:pg1597:13:126
# text = He sat beside Gerda, for he could not bear riding backwards; the other Raven stood in the doorway, and flapped her wings; she could not accompany Gerda, because she suffered from headache since she had had a fixed appointment and ate so much.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	flapped	flap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
31	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	ccomp	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	amod	_	_
44	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	much	much	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Raven |  |  | Gerda |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside gerda=Location |
| 2 | **not** **bear** | could | Raven |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ride** | gerund | Raven *not said here* |  |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the other Raven |  |  | the doorway |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location |
| 5 | **flap** | past | the other Raven *not said here* | Gerda's wings |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **accompany** | could | Gerda | Gerda |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme |
| 7 | **suffer** | past | Gerda |  |  | headache |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **have** | past · perfect | Gerda | a fixed appointment |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=Patient |
| 9 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **eat** | past | Gerda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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