--- title: She immediately loosened little Gerda's clothes, pulled off her thic… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She immediately loosened little Gerda's clothes, pulled off her thick gloves and boots; for otherwise the heat would have been too great--and after laying a piece of ice on the Reindeer's head, read what was written on the fish-skin. Who acts: woman, clothes, heat. 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C. 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 (woman, clothes, heat), 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:pg1597:14:108 # text = She immediately loosened little Gerda's clothes, pulled off her thick gloves and boots; for otherwise the heat would have been too great--and after laying a piece of ice on the Reindeer's head, read what was written on the fish-skin. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 loosened loosen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 off off ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 18 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 22 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 cop _ _ 24 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 28 after after SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 laying lay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Reindeer Reindeer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 40 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 41 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 ccomp _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **loosen** | past | woman | little Gerda's clothes | | | | immediately *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | | 2 | **pull off** | participle | little Gerda's clothes *not said here* | woman's thick gloves and boots | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | would · perfect | the heat | | | | | great, otherwise *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **lay** | gerund | | a piece of ice | | the Reindeer's head | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on head=Destination | | 5 | **read** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **write** | past · passive | | | | the fish skin | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on skin=Destination | 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 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/109/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/)