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title: Sarah worked hard, but contrived to spare time to amuse her and watc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sarah worked hard, but contrived to spare time to amuse her and watch by the sick bed. Who acts: Sarah. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 68

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Sarah worked hard, but contrived to spare time to amuse her and watch by the sick bed.

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**Who acts:** Sarah · **What happens:** work, contrive, spare, amuse, watch · **To what, where:** Sarah

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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 (Sarah), 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:pg27200:67:68
# text = Sarah worked hard, but contrived to spare time to amuse her and watch by the sick bed.
1	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | Sarah |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **contrive** | past | Sarah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spare** | to-infinitive | Sarah *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | Sarah *not said here* | Sarah |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 5 | **watch** | infinitive | Sarah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the sick bed | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=Location |

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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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