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title: So she took Gerda to a corner of the hall, where some straw and carp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So she took Gerda to a corner of the hall, where some straw and carpets were laid down. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 25

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So she took Gerda to a corner of the hall, where some straw and carpets were laid down.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** take, lay down · **To what, where:** Gerda, corner, straw

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg27200:174:25
# text = So she took Gerda to a corner of the hall, where some straw and carpets were laid down.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | girl | Gerda |  | a corner of the hall |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme to corner=Destination |
| 2 | **lay down** | past · passive |  | some straw and carpets |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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