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title: Here the first vegetation peeped forth; here Kay and Gerda took leav… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here the first vegetation peeped forth; here Kay and Gerda took leave of the Lapland woman. Who acts: first vegetation, Kay. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 53

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Here the first vegetation peeped forth; here Kay and Gerda took leave of the Lapland woman.

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**Who acts:** first vegetation, Kay · **What happens:** peep, take · **To what, where:** leave

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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 (first vegetation, Kay), 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:pg1597:15:53
# text = Here the first vegetation peeped forth; here Kay and Gerda took leave of the Lapland woman.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	vegetation	vegetation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
9	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | past | the first vegetation |  |  | here |  | forth *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | Kay and Gerda | leave of the Lapland woman |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |

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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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