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title: They had named her Helga, which was rather too soft a name for a chi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had named her Helga, which was rather too soft a name for a child with a temper like hers, although her form was still beautiful. Who acts: Helga, form, child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 13

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They had named her Helga, which was rather too soft a name for a child with a temper like hers, although her form was still beautiful.

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**Who acts:** Helga, form, child · **What happens:** name, be, form · **To what, where:** storks

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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 (Helga, form, 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:pg27200:85:13
# text = They had named her Helga, which was rather too soft a name for a child with a temper like hers, although her form was still beautiful.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · perfect · passive |  | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | her Helga |  |  |  |  | for a child with a temper like child; soft *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | child's form |  |  |  | still | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** |  | child |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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