--- title: Then little Gerda shed burning tears; and they fell on his bosom, th… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then little Gerda shed burning tears; and they fell on his bosom, they penetrated to his heart, they thawed the lumps of ice, and consumed the splinters of the looking-glass; he looked at her, and she sang the hymn: Who acts: little Gerda, tears, gate, Gerda. 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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 (little Gerda, tears, gate, Gerda), 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:pg1597:15:36 # text = Then little Gerda shed burning tears; and they fell on his bosom, they penetrated to his heart, they thawed the lumps of ice, and consumed the splinters of the looking-glass; he looked at her, and she sang the hymn: 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shed shed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 penetrated penetrate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 thawed thaw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 lumps lump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 consumed consume VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 splinters splinter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 hymn hymn NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shed** | past | little Gerda | | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **burn** | gerund | little Gerda *not said here* | tears | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | past | tears *= tear* | | | gate's bosom | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bosom=Location | | 4 | **penetrate** | past | tears *= tear* | | | | | to gate's heart | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **thaw** | past | tears *= tear* | the lumps of ice | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient lump=Result | | 6 | **consume** | past | little Gerda *not said here* | the splinters of the looking glass | | | | | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Asset | | 7 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **look** | past | gate | | | | | at Gerda | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 9 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Gerda | the hymn | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme | | 10 | **bosom** | | gate | | | | | | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/15/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/15/37/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/15/)