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title: The gate was formed of cutting winds; but Gerda repeated her evening… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The gate was formed of cutting winds; but Gerda repeated her evening prayer, and the winds were laid as though they slept; and the little maiden entered the vast, empty, cold halls. Who acts: Gerda, winds, little maiden. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 32

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The gate was formed of cutting winds; but Gerda repeated her evening prayer, and the winds were laid as though they slept; and the little maiden entered the vast, empty, cold halls.

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**Who acts:** Gerda, winds, little maiden · **What happens:** form, repeat, lay, sleep, enter, pray · **To what, where:** gate, evening prayer, winds, vast empty cold halls

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, winds, little 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:pg1597:15:32
# text = The gate was formed of cutting winds; but Gerda repeated her evening prayer, and the winds were laid as though they slept; and the little maiden entered the vast, empty, cold halls.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	cutting	cutting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	_
30	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
32	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past · passive |  | the gate |  |  |  | of cutting winds | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **repeat** | past | Gerda | Gerda's evening prayer |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lay** | past · passive |  | the winds |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **sleep** | past | winds *= wind* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **enter** | past | the little maiden | the vast empty cold halls |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination |
| 6 | **pray** |  | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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