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title: The wanderer sank, and went down to the Marsh King, as he is named,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wanderer sank, and went down to the Marsh King, as he is named, who rules in the great moorland empire beneath. Who acts: wanderer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 15

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The wanderer sank, and went down to the Marsh King, as he is named, who rules in the great moorland empire beneath.

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**Who acts:** wanderer · **What happens:** sink, go down, name, rule · **To what, where:** wanderer, great moorland empire

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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 (wanderer), 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:pg27200:83:15
# text = The wanderer sank, and went down to the Marsh King, as he is named, who rules in the great moorland empire beneath.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	moorland	moorland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | the wanderer |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go down** | past | the wanderer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Marsh King; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **name** | present · passive |  | wanderer |  | the great moorland empire |  | beneath *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **rule** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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