--- title: The boat floated with the stream; little Gerda sat quite still with… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The boat floated with the stream; little Gerda sat quite still with only her stockings on her feet; the red shoes floated after her, but she could not reach them because the boat kept so much in advance. Who acts: boat, red shoes, Gerda. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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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 (boat, red shoes, 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:pg27200:172:23 # text = The boat floated with the stream; little Gerda sat quite still with only her stockings on her feet; the red shoes floated after her, but she could not reach them because the boat kept so much in advance. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 floated float VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 quite quite ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 stockings stocking NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float** | participle | | the boat *not said here* | | | | with the stream | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | past | the boat | | | | still | with Gerda's stockings on Gerda's feet | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **float** | past | the red shoes | | | | after Gerda | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **reach** | could | Gerda | shoes *= shoe* | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | past | the boat | much | | advance | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent much=Theme in advance=Location | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/24/) - ↑ back to [The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/)