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title: The Marsh Woman is related to the elf maidens, who are well-known, f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Marsh Woman is related to the elf maidens, who are well-known, for songs are sung and pictures painted about them. Who acts: Marsh Woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 24

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The Marsh Woman is related to the elf maidens, who are well-known, for songs are sung and pictures painted about them.

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**Who acts:** Marsh Woman · **What happens:** be, know, sing, paint · **To what, where:** elf maidens, songs, pictures

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marsh Woman), 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:pg27200:37:24
# text = The Marsh Woman is related to the elf maidens, who are well-known, for songs are sung and pictures painted about them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Marsh Woman |  |  |  |  | to the elf maidens; related *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive |  | the elf maidens |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · passive |  | songs |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **paint** | participle |  | pictures *not said here* |  |  |  | about songs *= song* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent about they=Destination |

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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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