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title: She raised herself up, and wanted to stop the horse and spring off,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She raised herself up, and wanted to stop the horse and spring off, but the Christian priest held her back with all his might, and then sang a pious song, as if this could loosen the wicked charm that had changed her into the semblance of a frog. Who acts: mercy, Christian priest, this, wicked charm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 103

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She raised herself up, and wanted to stop the horse and spring off, but the Christian priest held her back with all his might, and then sang a pious song, as if this could loosen the wicked charm that had changed her into the semblance of a frog.

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**Who acts:** mercy, Christian priest, this, wicked charm · **What happens:** raise up, want, stop off, hold back, sing, loosen · **To what, where:** mercy, horse, pious song, wicked charm, semblance

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mercy, Christian priest, this, wicked charm), 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:pg27200:85:103
# text = She raised herself up, and wanted to stop the horse and spring off, but the Christian priest held her back with all his might, and then sang a pious song, as if this could loosen the wicked charm that had changed her into the semblance of a frog.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	loosen	loosen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	semblance	semblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise up** | past | mercy | mercy |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **stop off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the horse and spring |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality horse=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hold back** | past | the Christian priest | mercy |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  | a pious song |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 6 | **loosen** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | this | the wicked charm |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent charm=Patient |
| 7 | **change** | past · perfect | the wicked charm | mercy |  |  |  | into the semblance of a frog *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into semblance=Result |

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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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