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title: And they went into the garden in the large avenue, where one leaf wa… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And they went into the garden in the large avenue, where one leaf was falling after the other; and when the lights in the palace had all gradually disappeared, the Raven led little Gerda to the back door, which stood half open. Who acts: stairs, one leaf, lights, Raven. A sentence of «Andersen's Fai
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 82

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And they went into the garden in the large avenue, where one leaf was falling after the other; and when the lights in the palace had all gradually disappeared, the Raven led little Gerda to the back door, which stood half open.

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**Who acts:** stairs, one leaf, lights, Raven, back door · **What happens:** go, fall, have, disappear, lead, stand · **To what, where:** garden, little Gerda, back door, half

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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 (stairs, one leaf, lights, 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:pg1597:13:82
# text = And they went into the garden in the large avenue, where one leaf was falling after the other; and when the lights in the palace had all gradually disappeared, the Raven led little Gerda to the back door, which stood half open.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	avenue	avenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	44	obj	_	_
46	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | stairs *= stair* |  |  | the garden |  | in the large avenue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fall** | past · progressive | one leaf |  |  |  | after the other |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the lights in the palace |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **disappear** | past |  |  |  |  |  | all, gradually *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lead** | past | the Raven | little Gerda |  | the back door |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme to door=Destination |
| 6 | **stand** | past | the back door | half |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus |

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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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