--- title: Then little Gerda wept hot tears, which fell on his breast, and pene… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then little Gerda wept hot tears, which fell on his breast, and penetrated into his heart, and thawed the lump of ice, and washed away the little piece of glass which had stuck there. Who acts: little Gerda, hot tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. 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, hot tears), 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:pg27200:176:23 # text = Then little Gerda wept hot tears, which fell on his breast, and penetrated into his heart, and thawed the lump of ice, and washed away the little piece of glass which had stuck there. 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 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 penetrated penetrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 16 into into 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 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 thawed thaw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 lump lump NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weep** | past | little Gerda | hot tears | | | then | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | past | hot tears | | | Kay's breast | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on breast=Location | | 3 | **penetrate** | participle | hot tears *not said here* | | | Kay's heart | | | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **thaw** | past | little Gerda *not said here* | the lump of ice | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient lump=Result | | 5 | **wash away** | participle | little Gerda *not said here* | the little piece of glass | | | | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | | 6 | **stick** | past · perfect · passive | | the little piece of glass | | there | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/24/) - ↑ back to [Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/)