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title: Gerda was obliged to rest again, and just opposite the place where s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Gerda was obliged to rest again, and just opposite the place where she sat, she saw a great crow come hopping across the snow toward her. Who acts: Gerda, great crow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 1

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Gerda was obliged to rest again, and just opposite the place where she sat, she saw a great crow come hopping across the snow toward her.

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**Who acts:** Gerda, great crow · **What happens:** oblige, rest, sit, see, come, hop · **To what, where:** Gerda, snow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, great crow), 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:pg27200:173:1
# text = Gerda was obliged to rest again, and just opposite the place where she sat, she saw a great crow come hopping across the snow toward her.
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	opposite	opposite	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
23	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
24	across	across	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Gerda |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | present | a great crow |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hop** | gerund | a great crow *not said here* |  |  | the snow |  | toward crow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across snow=Trajectory |

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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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