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title: She must be nursed and waited upon, and there was no one whose duty… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She must be nursed and waited upon, and there was no one whose duty it was so much as Karen's. Who acts: one, duty. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 46

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She must be nursed and waited upon, and there was no one whose duty it was so much as Karen's.

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**Who acts:** one, duty · **What happens:** nurse, wait, be · **To what, where:** Karen, duty

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, duty), 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:pg1597:27:46
# text = She must be nursed and waited upon, and there was no one whose duty it was so much as Karen's.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nurse** | must · passive |  | Karen |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **wait** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | no one | duty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | duty |  |  |  |  | as Karen; much *property* | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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