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title: The good wife of the Viking could not let that happen, and she there… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The good wife of the Viking could not let that happen, and she therefore resolved that the Viking should never see the child excepting by daylight. Who acts: good wife, that, wife, Viking. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 103

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The good wife of the Viking could not let that happen, and she therefore resolved that the Viking should never see the child excepting by daylight.

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**Who acts:** good wife, that, wife, Viking, child · **What happens:** not let, happen, resolve, not see, except · **To what, where:** child

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good wife, that, wife, Viking), 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:pg27200:83:103
# text = The good wife of the Viking could not let that happen, and she therefore resolved that the Viking should never see the child excepting by daylight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	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	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
11	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | could | the good wife of the Viking |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | infinitive | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **see** | should | the Viking | the child |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 5 | **except** | gerund | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by daylight | 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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