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title: Gerda kissed the roses and thought of the lovely roses at home, and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Gerda kissed the roses and thought of the lovely roses at home, and with them came the thought of little Kay. Who acts: Gerda. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 34

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Gerda kissed the roses and thought of the lovely roses at home, and with them came the thought of little Kay.

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**Who acts:** Gerda · **What happens:** kiss, come, think · **To what, where:** roses, thought, lovely roses, little Kay

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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 (Gerda), 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:pg5615:9:34
# text = Gerda kissed the roses and thought of the lovely roses at home, and with them came the thought of little Kay.
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | Gerda | the roses and thought of the lovely roses at home |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | Gerda *not said here* | the thought of little Kay |  |  |  | with roses *= rose* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thought=Theme |
| 3 | **think** |  |  | the lovely roses at home |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **think** |  |  | little Kay |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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