--- title: Then the reindeer jumped for joy; and the little robber-girl lifted… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then the reindeer jumped for joy; and the little robber-girl lifted Gerda on his back, and had the forethought to tie her on, and even to give her her own little cushion to sit on. Who acts: reindeer, little robber girl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Littl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/67/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Little Robber-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/) / 67 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 67 Then the reindeer jumped for joy; and the little robber-girl lifted Gerda on his back, and had the forethought to tie her on, and even to give her her own little cushion to sit on. **Who acts:** reindeer, little robber girl · **What happens:** jump, lift, have, tie on, give, sit on · **To what, where:** Gerda, back, forethought, girl, own little cushion 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 (reindeer, little robber girl), 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:pg27200:174:67 # text = Then the reindeer jumped for joy; and the little robber-girl lifted Gerda on his back, and had the forethought to tie her on, and even to give her her own little cushion to sit on. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 forethought forethought NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 tie tie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 even even ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 cushion cushion NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 40 on on ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | past | the reindeer | | | | then | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lift** | past | the little robber girl | Gerda | | maiden's back | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme on back=Destination | | 3 | **have** | past | the little robber girl *not said here* | the forethought | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forethought=Patient | | 4 | **tie on** | to-infinitive | the little robber girl *not said here* | girl | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | the little robber girl *not said here* | girl's own little cushion | girl | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cushion=Theme | | 6 | **sit on** | to-infinitive | the little robber girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/68/) - ↑ back to [Little Robber-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/)