--- title: The reindeer told her all about Gerda's story, after having first to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The reindeer told her all about Gerda's story, after having first told his own, which seemed to him the most important, but Gerda was so pinched with the cold that she could not speak. " Who acts: reindeer, Gerda. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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" **Who acts:** reindeer, Gerda · **What happens:** tell, have, seem, pinch, not speak · **To what, where:** story, woman, own, reindeer, Gerda · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer, Gerda), 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:pg27200:175:3 # text = The reindeer told her all about Gerda's story, after having first told his own, which seemed to him the most important, but Gerda was so pinched with the cold that she could not speak. " 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 after after SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 24 advmod _ _ 24 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 pinched pinch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the reindeer | Gerda's story | woman | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic | | 2 | **have** | gerund | the reindeer *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the reindeer *not said here* | reindeer's own | | | | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent own=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **seem** | past | | | reindeer | | | important *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pinch** | past · passive | | Gerda | | | | with the cold | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer with cold=Instrument | | 6 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | could | Gerda | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/4/) - ↑ back to [The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/)