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title: She was in costly attire, and the bard named her in his song, and sp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She was in costly attire, and the bard named her in his song, and spoke of the rich treasure of gold which she had brought to her husband. Who acts: name, bard. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 24

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She was in costly attire, and the bard named her in his song, and spoke of the rich treasure of gold which she had brought to her husband.

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**Who acts:** name, bard · **What happens:** be, name, speak, bring, sing, treasure · **To what, where:** costly attire, name, song, rich treasure, husband, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (name, bard), 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:pg27200:84:24
# text = She was in costly attire, and the bard named her in his song, and spoke of the rich treasure of gold which she had brought to her husband.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | name |  |  | costly attire |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** | past | the bard | name |  | bard's song |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the rich treasure of gold | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the rich treasure of gold | name's husband |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to husband=Destination |
| 5 | **sing** |  | bard |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **treasure** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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