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title: The robber maiden lifted up little Gerda, and took the precaution to… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The robber maiden lifted up little Gerda, and took the precaution to bind her fast on the Reindeer's back; she even gave her a small cushion to sit on. Who acts: robber maiden, maiden. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 75

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The robber maiden lifted up little Gerda, and took the precaution to bind her fast on the Reindeer's back; she even gave her a small cushion to sit on.

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**Who acts:** robber maiden, maiden · **What happens:** lift up, take, bind, give, sit on · **To what, where:** little Gerda, precaution, maiden, back, small cushion, Gerda

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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 (robber maiden, maiden), 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:pg1597:14:75
# text = The robber maiden lifted up little Gerda, and took the precaution to bind her fast on the Reindeer's back; she even gave her a small cushion to sit on.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	precaution	precaution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Reindeer	Reindeer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | past | the robber maiden | little Gerda |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the robber maiden *not said here* | the precaution |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme |
| 3 | **bind** | to-infinitive | the robber maiden *not said here* | maiden |  | the Reindeer's back |  | fast *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | past | maiden | a small cushion | Gerda |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cushion=Theme |
| 5 | **sit on** | to-infinitive | maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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