--- title: Sister Ida became the wife of a peasant; that was the hardest trial… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Sister Ida became the wife of a peasant; that was the hardest trial which befell our father, that the husband of his own daughter should be a miserable serf, whom his owner could place for punishment on the wooden horse. Who acts: Sister, that, hardest trial, husband. 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C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, that, hardest trial, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:212:190 # text = Sister Ida became the wife of a peasant; that was the hardest trial which befell our father, that the husband of his own daughter should be a miserable serf, whom his owner could place for punishment on the wooden horse. 1 Sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Ida Ida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 3 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 befell befall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 serf serf NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Sister | the wife of a peasant | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | past | that | the hardest trial and a miserable serf and place | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **befall** | past | the hardest trial and a miserable serf and place | our father | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | should | the husband of husband's own daughter | a miserable serf | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **place** | could | the hardest trial and a miserable serf and place | | | | | for punishment; on the wooden horse | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/189/) - next →: [sentence 191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/191/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/)