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title: And then Gerda stretched out her hand, with the great mitten on it,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then Gerda stretched out her hand, with the great mitten on it, towards the little robber-girl, and said, "Farewell," and away flew the reindeer, over stumps and stones, through the great forest, over marshes and plains, as quickly as he could. Who acts: Gerda. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 75

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And then Gerda stretched out her hand, with the great mitten on it, towards the little robber-girl, and said, "Farewell," and away flew the reindeer, over stumps and stones, through the great forest, over marshes and plains, as quickly as he could.

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**Who acts:** Gerda · **What happens:** stretch out, say, fly · **To what, where:** hand, reindeer, stumps · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gerda), 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:pg27200:174:75
# text = And then Gerda stretched out her hand, with the great mitten on it, towards the little robber-girl, and said, "Farewell," and away flew the reindeer, over stumps and stones, through the great forest, over marshes and plains, as quickly as he could.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mitten	mitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	conj	_	_
32	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	stumps	stump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	through	through	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	over	over	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	as	as	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
53	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | past | Gerda | Gerda's hand |  |  | then | with the great mitten on mind | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with mitten=Instrument |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gerda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fly** | past |  | the reindeer |  | stumps and stones |  | over marshes and plains; quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme over stump=Initial\_Location over marsh=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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