--- title: The faithful wife of the knight at home gave up all her jewels, mort… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The faithful wife of the knight at home gave up all her jewels, mortgaged her castle and land, and his friends raised large sums to make up the ransom demanded for his release, which was most enormously high. Who acts: faithful wife, friends, ransom, release. 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C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faithful wife, friends, ransom, release), 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:pg27200:67:33 # text = The faithful wife of the knight at home gave up all her jewels, mortgaged her castle and land, and his friends raised large sums to make up the ransom demanded for his release, which was most enormously high. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 all all ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 mortgaged mortgage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 sums sum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 ransom ransom NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 demanded demand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 release release NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 40 advmod _ _ 40 enormously enormously ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | past | the faithful wife of the knight at home | | | | | all wife's jewels | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mortgage** | past | the faithful wife of the knight at home *not said here* | wife's castle and land | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **raise** | past | knight's friends | large sums | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | | 4 | **make up** | to-infinitive | knight's friends *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | the ransom | | | | | for knight's release | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | knight's release | | | | | enormously, high *property* | 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. 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