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title: “Do you intend to keep your knife while you sleep?” asked Gerda; loo… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Do you intend to keep your knife while you sleep?” asked Gerda; looking at it rather fearfully. Who acts: 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 35

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“Do you intend to keep your knife while you sleep?” asked Gerda; looking at it rather fearfully.

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**Who acts:** Gerda · **What happens:** intend, keep, sleep, ask, look · **To what, where:** knife, Gerda · **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 (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:pg1597:14:35
# text = “Do you intend to keep your knife while you sleep?” asked Gerda; looking at it rather fearfully.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	intend	intend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Gerda *not said here* | your knife |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** *in a quote* | present | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Gerda |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at knife; fearfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |

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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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