--- title: And Gerda stretched out her hands with the large wadded gloves towar… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And Gerda stretched out her hands with the large wadded gloves towards the robber maiden, and said, “Farewell!” and the Reindeer flew on over bush and bramble through the great wood, over moor and heath, as fast as he could go. Who acts: Gerda, Reindeer. 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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, Reindeer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:14:86 # text = And Gerda stretched out her hands with the large wadded gloves towards the robber maiden, and said, “Farewell!” and the Reindeer flew on over bush and bramble through the great wood, over moor and heath, as fast as he could go. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 wadded wad VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 towards towards ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Farewell farewell INTJ UH _ 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 bramble bramble NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 over over ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 moor moor NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 heath heath NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 as as ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 45 as as SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch out** | past | Gerda | Gerda's hands | | | | with the large wadded gloves; towards the robber maiden | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with glove=Instrument | | 2 | **wad** | participle | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic | | 4 | **fly** | past | the Reindeer | | | bush and bramble | | through the great wood; fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=Location | | 5 | **go** | could | reindeer | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/87/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/)