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title: "The princess wept and lamented aloud; her tears moistened the elder… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "The princess wept and lamented aloud; her tears moistened the elder stump, which was really not an elder stump but the Marsh King himself, he who in marshy ground lives and rules. Who acts: princess, tears, elder stump, king. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 47

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"The princess wept and lamented aloud; her tears moistened the elder stump, which was really not an elder stump but the Marsh King himself, he who in marshy ground lives and rules.

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**Who acts:** princess, tears, elder stump, king · **What happens:** weep, lament, moisten, not be, live · **To what, where:** elder stump, marshy ground

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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 (princess, tears, elder stump, king), 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:pg27200:83:47
# text = "The princess wept and lamented aloud; her tears moistened the elder stump, which was really not an elder stump but the Marsh King himself, he who in marshy ground lives and rules.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lamented	lament	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	moistened	moisten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	really	really	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	marshy	marshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
34	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** *in a quote* | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lament** *in a quote* | past | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **moisten** *in a quote* | past | mamma's tears | the elder stump |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stump=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | past | the elder stump | a elder stump |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** *in a quote* | present | king |  |  | marshy ground |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=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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