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title: Then little Gerda repeated the Lord's Prayer, and the cold was so gr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then little Gerda repeated the Lord's Prayer, and the cold was so great that she could see her own breath come out of her mouth like steam as she uttered the words. Who acts: little Gerda, cold, Gerda, great. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 38

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Then little Gerda repeated the Lord's Prayer, and the cold was so great that she could see her own breath come out of her mouth like steam as she uttered the words.

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**Who acts:** little Gerda, cold, Gerda, great · **What happens:** repeat, be, see, come out, utter · **To what, where:** Prayer, own breath, words

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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 (little Gerda, cold, Gerda, great), 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:pg27200:175:38
# text = Then little Gerda repeated the Lord's Prayer, and the cold was so great that she could see her own breath come out of her mouth like steam as she uttered the words.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Prayer	Prayer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | little Gerda | the Lord's Prayer |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | the cold |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | could | Gerda | Gerda's own breath |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come out** | present | great |  |  |  |  | of Gerda's mouth; like steam; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | Gerda | the words |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

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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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