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title: Then Helga seemed suddenly to awake from her long, deep reverie; she… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Helga seemed suddenly to awake from her long, deep reverie; she threw herself hastily upon the dying animal. Who acts: Helga, animal. 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 46

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Then Helga seemed suddenly to awake from her long, deep reverie; she threw herself hastily upon the dying animal.

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**Who acts:** Helga, animal · **What happens:** seem, awake, throw, die · **To what, where:** long deep reverie, animal

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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 (Helga, animal), 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:pg27200:86:46
# text = Then Helga seemed suddenly to awake from her long, deep reverie; she threw herself hastily upon the dying animal.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	awake	awake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	reverie	reverie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Helga |  |  |  | then | suddenly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **awake** | to-infinitive | Helga *not said here* |  |  | animal's long deep reverie |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | past | animal | animal |  |  |  | upon the dying animal; hastily *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon animal=Destination |
| 4 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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