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title: She was taken to Copenhagen under the protection of her future mothe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She was taken to Copenhagen under the protection of her future mother-in-law, because the bridegroom could not spare time from his numerous occupations for a journey so far into Jutland. Who acts: bridegroom, Copenhagen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 141

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She was taken to Copenhagen under the protection of her future mother-in-law, because the bridegroom could not spare time from his numerous occupations for a journey so far into Jutland.

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**Who acts:** bridegroom, Copenhagen · **What happens:** take, not spare, protect, occupy · **To what, where:** bridegroom, Copenhagen, protection, numerous occupations, future mother

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridegroom, Copenhagen), 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:pg27200:51:141
# text = She was taken to Copenhagen under the protection of her future mother-in-law, because the bridegroom could not spare time from his numerous occupations for a journey so far into Jutland.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	occupations	occupation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | bridegroom | Copenhagen | the protection of bridegroom's future mother in law |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to copenhagen=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **spare** | could | the bridegroom |  |  | Copenhagen's numerous occupations for a journey | time | far *property* | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **protect** |  |  | bridegroom's future mother in law |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **occupy** |  | Copenhagen |  |  |  |  | for a journey | nom occupation «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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