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title: She knew Gerda directly, and Gerda remembered her: it was a joyful m… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She knew Gerda directly, and Gerda remembered her: it was a joyful meeting. Who acts: girl, Gerda, forest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 42

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She knew Gerda directly, and Gerda remembered her: it was a joyful meeting.

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**Who acts:** girl, Gerda, forest · **What happens:** know, remember, be · **To what, where:** Gerda, girl, joyful meeting

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (girl, Gerda, forest), 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:pg27200:176:42
# text = She knew Gerda directly, and Gerda remembered her: it was a joyful meeting.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | girl | Gerda |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer gerda=Stimulus |
| 2 | **remember** | past | Gerda | girl |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | forest | a joyful meeting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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