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title: Then the Viking's wife took her on her lap, and forgot the ugly form… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Viking's wife took her on her lap, and forgot the ugly form, as she looked into the mournful eyes, and often said, "I could wish that thou wouldst always remain my dumb frog child, for thou art too terrible when thou art clothed in a form of beauty." Who acts: wife, transformation, I, that.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 34

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Then the Viking's wife took her on her lap, and forgot the ugly form, as she looked into the mournful eyes, and often said, "I could wish that thou wouldst always remain my dumb frog child, for thou art too terrible when thou art clothed in a form of beauty."

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**Who acts:** wife, transformation, I, that · **What happens:** take, forget, look, say, wish, remain · **To what, where:** transformation, lap, ugly form, dumb frog child, thou, form · **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, transformation, I, that), 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:pg27200:85:34
# text = Then the Viking's wife took her on her lap, and forgot the ugly form, as she looked into the mournful eyes, and often said, "I could wish that thou wouldst always remain my dumb frog child, for thou art too terrible when thou art clothed in a form of beauty."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	often	often	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj:outer	_	_
35	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
36	wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	38	advmod	_	_
38	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
40	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	46	nsubj	_	_
46	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
47	too	too	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	_
49	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
50	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	advcl	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Viking's wife | transformation |  | transformation's lap | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on lap=Destination |
| 2 | **forget** | past | the Viking's wife *not said here* | the ugly form |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | transformation |  |  |  |  | into the mournful eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wish** *in a quote* | could | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **remain** *in a quote* | would | that | my dumb frog child |  |  |  | always *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme child=Attribute |
| 7 | **clothe** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | thou |  | a form of beauty |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **form** *in a quote* |  |  | beauty |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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