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title: And Kay and Gerda looked in each other's eyes, and all at once they… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Kay and Gerda looked in each other's eyes, and all at once they understood the old hymn: Who acts: Kay, all. 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 76

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And Kay and Gerda looked in each other's eyes, and all at once they understood the old hymn:

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**Who acts:** Kay, all · **What happens:** look, understand · **To what, where:** old hymn

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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 (Kay, all), 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:pg1597:15:76
# text = And Kay and Gerda looked in each other's eyes, and all at once they understood the old hymn:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	nmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Kay and Gerda |  |  |  |  | in each other eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in eye=Theme |
| 2 | **understand** | past | all | the old hymn |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hymn=Stimulus |

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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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