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title: He would take her to Hedeby to St. Ansgarius, and there, in that Chr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He would take her to Hedeby to St. Ansgarius, and there, in that Christian town, the spell of the sorcerer would be removed. Who acts: man, Christian town. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 23

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He would take her to Hedeby to St. Ansgarius, and there, in that Christian town, the spell of the sorcerer would be removed.

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**Who acts:** man, Christian town · **What happens:** take, remove, spell · **To what, where:** action, Hedeby, spell, sorcerer

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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, Christian town), 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:pg27200:86:23
# text = He would take her to Hedeby to St. Ansgarius, and there, in that Christian town, the spell of the sorcerer would be removed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Hedeby	Hedeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	Ansgarius	Ansgarius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | man | action | Hedeby |  |  | to St. | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to hedeby=Destination |
| 2 | **remove** | would · passive | that Christian town *not said here* | the spell of the sorcerer |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **spell** |  |  | the sorcerer |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state 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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