--- title: When Gerda had warmed herself, and had eaten and drunk, the Lapland… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When Gerda had warmed herself, and had eaten and drunk, the Lapland woman wrote a few words on a dried haberdine, begged Gerda to take care of them, put her on the Reindeer, bound her fast, and away sprang the animal. Who acts: Gerda, Lapland woman. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, Lapland woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:14:102 # text = When Gerda had warmed herself, and had eaten and drunk, the Lapland woman wrote a few words on a dried haberdine, begged Gerda to take care of them, put her on the Reindeer, bound her fast, and away sprang the animal. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 warmed warm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 drunk drink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Lapland Lapland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 haberdine haberdine NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 bound bound SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 away away ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **warm** | past · perfect | Gerda | Gerda | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | past · perfect | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drink** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **write** | past | the Lapland woman | a few words | | a dried haberdine | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme on haberdine=Destination | | 5 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the Lapland woman *not said here* | | Gerda | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Lapland woman *not said here* | care | | | | of words *= word* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of they=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **put** | past | the Lapland woman *not said here* | woman | | the Reindeer | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on reindeer=Destination | | 9 | **spring** | past | the Lapland woman *not said here* | the animal | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location animal=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/103/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/)