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title: She had to be nursed and waited upon, and this was no one's duty mor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had to be nursed and waited upon, and this was no one's duty more than Karen's. Who acts: Karen, this. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 48

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She had to be nursed and waited upon, and this was no one's duty more than Karen's.

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

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (Karen, this), 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:pg27200:154:48
# text = She had to be nursed and waited upon, and this was no one's duty more than Karen's.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Karen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nurse** | to-infinitive · passive | Karen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary» |
| 3 | **wait** | participle | Karen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this | no one's duty |  |  |  |  | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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