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title: Then the Finland woman lifted little Gerda upon the reindeer, and he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Finland woman lifted little Gerda upon the reindeer, and he ran away with her as quickly as he could. Who acts: Finland woman, reindeer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 30

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Then the Finland woman lifted little Gerda upon the reindeer, and he ran away with her as quickly as he could.

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**Who acts:** Finland woman, reindeer · **What happens:** lift, run away · **To what, where:** little Gerda, reindeer

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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 (Finland woman, reindeer), 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:pg27200:175:30
# text = Then the Finland woman lifted little Gerda upon the reindeer, and he ran away with her as quickly as he could.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | the Finland woman | little Gerda |  | the reindeer | then |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme upon reindeer=Destination |
| 2 | **run away** | past | reindeer |  |  |  |  | with woman; away, quickly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with she=Material |

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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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