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title: She was too good and too innocent for witchcraft to have any power o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She was too good and too innocent for witchcraft to have any power over her. Who acts: queen, witchcraft. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 32

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She was too good and too innocent for witchcraft to have any power over her.

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**Who acts:** queen, witchcraft · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** power

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, witchcraft), 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:pg27200:208:32
# text = She was too good and too innocent for witchcraft to have any power over her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | witchcraft | any power |  |  |  | over queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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:** «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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