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title: And yet even here its power was shown; something more than the mere… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet even here its power was shown; something more than the mere strength of a man opposed itself, through his means, against the evil which struggled within her. Who acts: man, evil. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 17

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And yet even here its power was shown; something more than the mere strength of a man opposed itself, through his means, against the evil which struggled within her.

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**Who acts:** man, evil · **What happens:** show, oppose, mean, struggle · **To what, where:** power, evil

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, evil), 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:pg27200:86:17
# text = And yet even here its power was shown; something more than the mere strength of a man opposed itself, through his means, against the evil which struggled within her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	opposed	oppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	within	within	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past · passive |  | water's power |  | here |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient something=Topic |
| 2 | **oppose** | past | a man | power |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  | the evil |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Topic |
| 4 | **struggle** | past | the evil |  |  |  |  | within garment | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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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