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title: But how fared little Gerda during Kay's absence? — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But how fared little Gerda during Kay's absence? Who acts: Kay. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 1

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But how fared little Gerda during Kay's absence?

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**Who acts:** Kay · **What happens:** fare, absent · **To what, where:** little Gerda

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:172:1
# text = But how fared little Gerda during Kay's absence?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	fared	fare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	during	during	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fare** | participle |  | little Gerda |  |  | during Kay's absence |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **absent** |  | Kay |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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