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title: “No,” said little Gerda; who then related all that had happened to h… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “No,” said little Gerda; who then related all that had happened to her, and how much she cared about little Kay. Who acts: little Gerda, that, Gerda. 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 17

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“No,” said little Gerda; who then related all that had happened to her, and how much she cared about little Kay.

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**Who acts:** little Gerda, that, Gerda · **What happens:** say, relate, happen, care · **To what, where:** Gerda, little Kay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (little Gerda, that, Gerda), 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:pg1597:14:17
# text = “No,” said little Gerda; who then related all that had happened to her, and how much she cared about little Kay.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	related	relate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | little Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **relate** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **happen** | past · perfect | that |  | Gerda |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **care** | past | Gerda | little Kay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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