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title: She drew her knife, cut through the bonds which confined his hands a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She drew her knife, cut through the bonds which confined his hands and feet, and beckoned to him to follow her. Who acts: Helga, bonds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 93

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She drew her knife, cut through the bonds which confined his hands and feet, and beckoned to him to follow her.

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**Who acts:** Helga, bonds · **What happens:** draw, cut, confine, beckon, follow · **To what, where:** knife, hands, handsomest, Helga

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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, bonds), 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:pg27200:85:93
# text = She drew her knife, cut through the bonds which confined his hands and feet, and beckoned to him to follow her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bonds	bond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	confined	confine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Helga | Helga's knife |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | participle | Helga *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the bonds | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through bond=Patient |
| 3 | **confine** | past | the bonds | handsomest's hands and feet |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **beckon** | participle | Helga *not said here* |  | handsomest *= handsome* |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Helga *not said here* | Helga |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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