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title: The bread and the meat were fastened to the Reindeer's back; the lit… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The bread and the meat were fastened to the Reindeer's back; the little maiden opened the door, called in all the dogs, and then with her knife cut the rope that fastened the animal, and said to him, “Now, off with you; but take good care of the little girl!” Who acts: little maiden, rope, little gi
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 85

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The bread and the meat were fastened to the Reindeer's back; the little maiden opened the door, called in all the dogs, and then with her knife cut the rope that fastened the animal, and said to him, “Now, off with you; but take good care of the little girl!”

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**Who acts:** little maiden, rope, little girl · **What happens:** fasten, open, call, cut, say, take · **To what, where:** bread, door, rope, animal, reindeer, good care · **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 maiden, rope, little girl), 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:pg1597:14:85
# text = The bread and the meat were fastened to the Reindeer's back; the little maiden opened the door, called in all the dogs, and then with her knife cut the rope that fastened the animal, and said to him, “Now, off with you; but take good care of the little girl!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Reindeer	Reindeer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
32	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	off	off	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
52	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
54	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | the bread and the meat |  |  |  | to the Reindeer's back | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | the little maiden | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | the door *not said here* |  |  |  | in all dogs | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cut** | past | the little maiden *not said here* | the rope |  |  | then | with maiden's knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient with knife=Instrument |
| 5 | **fasten** | past | the rope | the animal |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little maiden *not said here* |  | reindeer |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 7 | **take** *in a quote* | present |  | good care of the little girl |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 8 | **care** *in a quote* |  | the little girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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