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title: The Viking's wife was, for the time in which she lived, a woman of s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Viking's wife was, for the time in which she lived, a woman of strong character and will; but, compared to her daughter, she was a gentle, timid woman, and she knew that a wicked sorcerer had the terrible child in his power. Who acts: wife, Viking, wicked sorcerer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 26

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The Viking's wife was, for the time in which she lived, a woman of strong character and will; but, compared to her daughter, she was a gentle, timid woman, and she knew that a wicked sorcerer had the terrible child in his power.

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**Who acts:** wife, Viking, wicked sorcerer · **What happens:** be, live, compare, know, have · **To what, where:** woman, gentle timid woman, terrible child, power · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Viking, wicked sorcerer), 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:pg27200:85:26
# text = The Viking's wife was, for the time in which she lived, a woman of strong character and will; but, compared to her daughter, she was a gentle, timid woman, and she knew that a wicked sorcerer had the terrible child in his power.
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	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	ccomp	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Viking's wife |  |  |  | for the time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | Viking | a woman of strong character |  |  | in the time |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **compare** | participle | the Viking's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Viking's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Viking | a gentle timid woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | past | Viking |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **have** | past | a wicked sorcerer | the terrible child |  | sorcerer's power |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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