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title: Her father, a poor but honest man, had placed his daughter at the sc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her father, a poor but honest man, had placed his daughter at the school on the conditions that she should not be instructed in the Christian faith. Who acts: father. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 8

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Her father, a poor but honest man, had placed his daughter at the school on the conditions that she should not be instructed in the Christian faith.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** place, not instruct · **To what, where:** daughter, school, Sarah, Christian faith

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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 (father), 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:pg27200:67:8
# text = Her father, a poor but honest man, had placed his daughter at the school on the conditions that she should not be instructed in the Christian faith.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · perfect | Sarah's father and a poor man | book's daughter |  | the school |  | on the conditions | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme on condition=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **instruct** *speech: other* | should · passive |  | Sarah |  | the Christian faith |  |  | tree rules |

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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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