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title: So now the "Word," which is all-powerful to create, was working in t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So now the "Word," which is all-powerful to create, was working in the heart of Helga. Who acts: Word. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 40

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So now the "Word," which is all-powerful to create, was working in the heart of Helga.

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**Who acts:** Word · **What happens:** be, create, work

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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 (Word), 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:pg27200:86:40
# text = So now the "Word," which is all-powerful to create, was working in the heart of Helga.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Word	Word	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Word |  |  |  |  | powerful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **create** | to-infinitive | the Word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | past · progressive | the Word |  |  |  | now | in the heart of Helga | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in heart=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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