--- title: Perhaps the river will carry me to little Kay, thought Gerda, and th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Perhaps the river will carry me to little Kay, thought Gerda, and then she became more cheerful, and raised her head, and looked at the beautiful green banks; and so the boat sailed on for hours. Who acts: river, Gerda, boat. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (river, Gerda, boat), 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:pg27200:172:26 # text = Perhaps the river will carry me to little Kay, thought Gerda, and then she became more cheerful, and raised her head, and looked at the beautiful green banks; and so the boat sailed on for hours. 1 Perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 18 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 19 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 39 on on ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | future | the river | me | little Kay | | | perhaps *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to kay=Destination | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the river *not said here* | Gerda | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gerda=Theme | | 3 | **become** | past | Gerda | | | | then | cheerful *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **raise** | past | | Gerda's head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 5 | **look** | past | | | | | | at the beautiful green banks | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bank=Theme | | 6 | **sail on** | past | the boat | | | | hour | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/27/) - ↑ back to [The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/)