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title: Even Helga had heard of this belief in the teachings of One who was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Even Helga had heard of this belief in the teachings of One who was named Christ, and who for the love of mankind, and for their redemption, had given up His life. Who acts: teachings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 59

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Even Helga had heard of this belief in the teachings of One who was named Christ, and who for the love of mankind, and for their redemption, had given up His life.

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**Who acts:** teachings · **What happens:** hear, name, give up, love, redeem · **To what, where:** Helga, teachings, life, mankind

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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 (teachings), 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:pg27200:85:59
# text = Even Helga had heard of this belief in the teachings of One who was named Christ, and who for the love of mankind, and for their redemption, had given up His life.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	teachings	teaching	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	redemption	redemption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive |  | Helga |  | the teachings |  | of this belief | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **name** | past · passive |  | the teachings |  |  |  | of One | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **give up** | past · perfect · passive |  | Christ's life |  |  |  | for the love of mankind; for teachings's redemption | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** |  |  | mankind |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **redeem** |  | teachings *= teaching* |  |  |  |  |  | nom redemption «act 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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