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title: And now the Finland woman placed little Gerda on the Reindeer's back… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the Finland woman placed little Gerda on the Reindeer's back, and off he ran with all imaginable speed. Who acts: Finland woman, reindeer. 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 129

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And now the Finland woman placed little Gerda on the Reindeer's back, and off he ran with all imaginable speed.

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**Who acts:** Finland woman, reindeer · **What happens:** place, run · **To what, where:** little Gerda, back

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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 (Finland woman, reindeer), 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:pg1597:14:129
# text = And now the Finland woman placed little Gerda on the Reindeer's back, and off he ran with all imaginable speed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Reindeer	Reindeer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **place** | past | the Finland woman | little Gerda |  | the Reindeer's back | now |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme on back=Destination |
| 2 | **run** | past | reindeer |  |  |  |  | with all imaginable speed | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with speed=Material |

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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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