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title: One servant only--an old maid--remained faithful to her; and with th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One servant only--an old maid--remained faithful to her; and with the old servant, the widow herself followed the plough; and the crop grew, although the land had been cursed by the Pope and by the bishop. Who acts: One servant, widow, crop, Pope. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderse
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 41

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One servant only--an old maid--remained faithful to her; and with the old servant, the widow herself followed the plough; and the crop grew, although the land had been cursed by the Pope and by the bishop.

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**Who acts:** One servant, widow, crop, Pope · **What happens:** remain, follow, grow, curse · **To what, where:** plough, land

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One servant, widow, crop, Pope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:781`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:12:41
# text = One servant only--an old maid--remained faithful to her; and with the old servant, the widow herself followed the plough; and the crop grew, although the land had been cursed by the Pope and by the bishop.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl:agent	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | One servant |  |  |  |  | faithful *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the widow  widow | the plough |  |  |  | with the old servant | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the crop |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **curse** | past · perfect · passive | the Pope and the bishop | the land |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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