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title: And as she combed Gerda’s hair, Gerda thought less and less about Ka… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as she combed Gerda’s hair, Gerda thought less and less about Kay, for the old woman was a witch, but not a wicked witch, for she only enchanted now and then to amuse herself, and she did want to keep little Gerda very much. Who acts: girl, Gerda, old woman. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» b
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 21

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And as she combed Gerda’s hair, Gerda thought less and less about Kay, for the old woman was a witch, but not a wicked witch, for she only enchanted now and then to amuse herself, and she did want to keep little Gerda very much.

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**Who acts:** girl, Gerda, old woman · **What happens:** comb, think, be, enchant, amuse, want · **To what, where:** hair, girl, little Gerda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. 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, old woman), 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:pg5615:9:21
# text = And as she combed Gerda’s hair, Gerda thought less and less about Kay, for the old woman was a witch, but not a wicked witch, for she only enchanted now and then to amuse herself, and she did want to keep little Gerda very much.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	combed	comb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
40	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	very	very	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	much	much	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comb** | past | girl | Gerda's hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  | about Kay; less *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  | for a witch but a wicked witch | tree rules |
| 4 | **enchant** | past | girl |  |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | girl |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 6 | **want** | past · do-support | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | little Gerda |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme |

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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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