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title: The Viking's wife was above measure delighted when she awoke the nex… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Viking's wife was above measure delighted when she awoke the next morning and found the beautiful little child lying in her bosom. Who acts: wife, beautiful little child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 74

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The Viking's wife was above measure delighted when she awoke the next morning and found the beautiful little child lying in her bosom.

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**Who acts:** wife, beautiful little child · **What happens:** be, awake, find, lie, bosom · **To what, where:** above measure, beautiful little child, bosom

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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 (wife, beautiful little 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:pg27200:83:74
# text = The Viking's wife was above measure delighted when she awoke the next morning and found the beautiful little child lying in her bosom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	above	above	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Viking's wife | above measure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **awake** | past | wife |  |  |  | morning |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | wife *not said here* | the beautiful little child |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | the beautiful little child *not said here* |  |  | wife's bosom |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bosom=Location |
| 5 | **bosom** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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