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title: There stood poor Gerda now, without shoes or gloves, in the very mid… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There stood poor Gerda now, without shoes or gloves, in the very middle of dreadful icy Finland. 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 134

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There stood poor Gerda now, without shoes or gloves, in the very middle of dreadful icy Finland.

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**What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** poor Gerda, middle

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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: 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:pg1597:14:134
# text = There stood poor Gerda now, without shoes or gloves, in the very middle of dreadful icy Finland.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | poor Gerda |  | the middle of dreadful icy Finland; there | now |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme in middle=Destination |

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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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