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title: And now the princess is buried in the wild marsh, she will never now… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the princess is buried in the wild marsh, she will never now carry flowers to Egypt to cure her father. Who acts: child. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 53

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And now the princess is buried in the wild marsh, she will never now carry flowers to Egypt to cure her father.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** bury, not carry, cure · **To what, where:** princess, wild marsh, flowers, Egypt, father

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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 (child), 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:pg27200:83:53
# text = And now the princess is buried in the wild marsh, she will never now carry flowers to Egypt to cure her father.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | present · passive |  | the princess |  | the wild marsh | now |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in marsh=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **carry** | future | child | flowers | Egypt |  | now |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme to egypt=Destination |
| 3 | **cure** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | child's father |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer father=Source |

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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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