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title: The Viking's wife looked at the wild, badly disposed girl, with grea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Viking's wife looked at the wild, badly disposed girl, with great sorrow; and when night came on, and her daughter's beautiful form and disposition were changed, she spoke in eloquent words to Helga of the sorrow and deep grief that was in her heart. Who acts: wife, night, deep grief, daughter. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 74

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The Viking's wife looked at the wild, badly disposed girl, with great sorrow; and when night came on, and her daughter's beautiful form and disposition were changed, she spoke in eloquent words to Helga of the sorrow and deep grief that was in her heart.

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**Who acts:** wife, night, deep grief, daughter · **What happens:** look, dispose, come on, change, speak, be · **To what, where:** girl, beautiful form, eloquent words, heart, sorrow · **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, night, deep grief, daughter), 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:pg27200:85:74
# text = The Viking's wife looked at the wild, badly disposed girl, with great sorrow; and when night came on, and her daughter's beautiful form and disposition were changed, she spoke in eloquent words to Helga of the sorrow and deep grief that was in her heart.
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	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	eloquent	eloquent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the Viking's wife |  |  |  |  | at the wild | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wild=Theme |
| 2 | **dispose** | participle | the Viking's wife *not said here* | girl |  |  |  | with great sorrow; badly *property* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 3 | **come on** | past | night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **change** | past · passive |  | Viking's daughter's beautiful form and disposition |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | wife |  |  | eloquent words to Helga of the sorrow and deep grief |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | deep grief |  |  | Helga's heart |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **form** |  | Viking's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **word** |  |  | the sorrow and deep grief |  |  |  | to Helga | nom word «communication transitive»: to=obl 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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