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title: Set her down by the large bush with red berries, standing in the sno… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Set her down by the large bush with red berries, standing in the snow; don't stay talking, but hasten back as fast as possible.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 128

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Set her down by the large bush with red berries, standing in the snow; don't stay talking, but hasten back as fast as possible.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** set down, stand, not stay, talk, hasten back · **To what, where:** Queen, snow

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. 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 (you), 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:pg1597:14:128
# text = Set her down by the large bush with red berries, standing in the snow; don't stay talking, but hasten back as fast as possible.”
1	Set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set down** | imperative | you *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  | by the large bush with red berries | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by bush=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | the snow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in snow=Location |
| 3 | **not** **stay** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hasten back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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