--- title: Sarah's master died, and his widow found herself in such reduced cir… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Sarah's master died, and his widow found herself in such reduced circumstances that she wished to dismiss her servant maid; but Sarah refused to leave the house, and she became a true support in time of trouble, and kept the household together by working till late at night, with her busy hands, to e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/67/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Jewish Maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/67/) / 66 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 66 Sarah's master died, and his widow found herself in such reduced circumstances that she wished to dismiss her servant maid; but Sarah refused to leave the house, and she became a true support in time of trouble, and kept the household together by working till late at night, with her busy hands, to earn their daily bread. **Who acts:** master, widow, Sarah · **What happens:** die, find, reduce, wish, dismiss, refuse · **To what, where:** widow, such reduced circumstances, servant maid, house, true support, household This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (master, widow, Sarah), 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:pg27200:67:66 # text = Sarah's master died, and his widow found herself in such reduced circumstances that she wished to dismiss her servant maid; but Sarah refused to leave the house, and she became a true support in time of trouble, and kept the household together by working till late at night, with her busy hands, to earn their daily bread. 1 Sarah Sarah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 reduced reduce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 circumstances circumstance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 dismiss dismiss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 Sarah Sarah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 support support NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 together together ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 48 by by SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 49 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 50 till till SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 51 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 49 advmod _ _ 52 at at ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 with with ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 56 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 57 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 to to PART TO _ 61 mark _ _ 61 earn earn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 conj _ _ 62 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 64 nmod:poss _ _ 63 daily daily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | Sarah's master | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **find** | past | God's widow | widow | | such reduced circumstances | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | | 3 | **reduce** | participle | | | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | | 4 | **wish** | past | widow | such reduced circumstances *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **dismiss** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | widow *not said here* | widow's servant maid | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme | | 6 | **refuse** | past | Sarah | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **not** **leave** | to-infinitive | Sarah *not said here* | the house | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 8 | **become** | past | Sarah | a true support in time of trouble | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **keep** | past | Sarah *not said here* | the household | | | | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent household=Theme | | 10 | **work** | gerund | Sarah *not said here* | | | | | with widow's busy hands; late *property* | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Co-Agent | | 11 | **earn** | to-infinitive | Sarah *not said here* | hands's daily bread | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | 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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