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title: And the first green buds appeared, the first little birds began to c… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the first green buds appeared, the first little birds began to chirrup; and out of the wood came, riding on a magnificent horse, which Gerda knew (it was one of the leaders in the golden carriage), a young damsel with a bright-red cap on her head, and armed with pistols. Who acts: first green bu
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 56

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And the first green buds appeared, the first little birds began to chirrup; and out of the wood came, riding on a magnificent horse, which Gerda knew (it was one of the leaders in the golden carriage), a young damsel with a bright-red cap on her head, and armed with pistols.

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**Who acts:** first green buds, first little birds, Gerda, wood · **What happens:** appear, begin, come, ride, know, be · **To what, where:** chirrup, wood, magnificent horse, one

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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 green buds, first little birds, Gerda, wood), 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:pg1597:15:56
# text = And the first green buds appeared, the first little birds began to chirrup; and out of the wood came, riding on a magnificent horse, which Gerda knew (it was one of the leaders in the golden carriage), a young damsel with a bright-red cap on her head, and armed with pistols.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	chirrup	chirrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
30	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
50	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
60	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	pistols	pistol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the first green buds |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the first little birds | chirrup |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | past | the first green buds *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out wood=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **ride** | gerund | the first green buds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a magnificent horse and a young damsel; with a red cap on Gerda's head | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** | past | Gerda | a magnificent horse and a young damsel |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | past | wood | one |  |  |  | of the leaders in the golden carriage | tree rules |

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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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