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title: She had performed all this, and in a dream had learnt that she must… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had performed all this, and in a dream had learnt that she must bring home to her father the lotus flower, which grows in the deep sea, near the moors and heath in the Danish land. Who acts: princess, lotus flower. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mar
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 106

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She had performed all this, and in a dream had learnt that she must bring home to her father the lotus flower, which grows in the deep sea, near the moors and heath in the Danish land.

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**Who acts:** princess, lotus flower · **What happens:** perform, learn, bring, grow · **To what, where:** this, dream, lotus flower, father, deep sea

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, lotus flower), 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:pg27200:84:106
# text = She had performed all this, and in a dream had learnt that she must bring home to her father the lotus flower, which grows in the deep sea, near the moors and heath in the Danish land.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	near	near	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | past · perfect | princess | this |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | past · perfect | princess *not said here* |  |  | a dream |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** | must | princess | the lotus flower | princess's father |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme to father=Destination |
| 4 | **grow** | present | the lotus flower |  |  | the deep sea |  | near the moors and heath in the Danish land | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=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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