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title: Then Gerda told her everything, while the old woman shook her head,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Gerda told her everything, while the old woman shook her head, and said, "Hem-hem;" and when she had finished, Gerda asked if she had not seen little Kay, and the old woman told her he had not passed by that way, but he very likely would come. Who acts: Gerda, old woman, way, Kay. A sentence of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 36

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Then Gerda told her everything, while the old woman shook her head, and said, "Hem-hem;" and when she had finished, Gerda asked if she had not seen little Kay, and the old woman told her he had not passed by that way, but he very likely would come.

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**Who acts:** Gerda, old woman, way, Kay · **What happens:** tell, shake, say, finish, ask, not see · **To what, where:** everything, head, little Kay, Gerda, Kay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gerda, old woman, way, 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:pg27200:172:36
# text = Then Gerda told her everything, while the old woman shook her head, and said, "Hem-hem;" and when she had finished, Gerda asked if she had not seen little Kay, and the old woman told her he had not passed by that way, but he very likely would come.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Hem	hem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	hem	hem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	ccomp	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
45	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	ccomp	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
52	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
56	very	very	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
58	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Gerda | everything |  |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient |
| 2 | **shake** | past | the old woman | Gerda's head |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gerda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **finish** | past · perfect | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Gerda | little Kay |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kay=Stimulus |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  | Gerda |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **not** **pass** | past · perfect · passive | that way | Kay |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory |
| 9 | **come** | would | Kay |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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