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title: How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. Who acts: Power. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 25

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How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is.

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**Who acts:** Power · **What happens:** oblige, serve, get, be · **To what, where:** men, Power, world

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Power), 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:pg27200:175:25
# text = How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	barefooted	barefooted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | present · passive |  | men and animals |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **serve** | to-infinitive |  | Power |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute |
| 3 | **get** | present · perfect | Power |  |  | the world |  | well *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through world=Destination |
| 4 | **be** | present | Power |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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