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title: There stood poor Gerda, without shoes or gloves in the middle of the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There stood poor Gerda, without shoes or gloves in the middle of the bitter cold of Finland. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 93

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There stood poor Gerda, without shoes or gloves in the middle of the bitter cold of Finland.

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**What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** poor Gerda, middle

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg5615:10:93
# text = There stood poor Gerda, without shoes or gloves in the middle of the bitter cold of Finland.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | poor Gerda |  | the middle of the bitter cold of Finland; there |  | without shoes or gloves | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme in middle=Destination |

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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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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