--- title: Then the robbers seized beautiful Helga by her white arms and slende… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then the robbers seized beautiful Helga by her white arms and slender waist; but at that moment the sun went down, and as its last ray disappeared, she was changed into the form of a frog. Who acts: robbers, sun, last ray. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (robbers, sun, last ray), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:86:48 # text = Then the robbers seized beautiful Helga by her white arms and slender waist; but at that moment the sun went down, and as its last ray disappeared, she was changed into the form of a frog. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 robbers robber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Helga Helga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 slender slender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 waist waist NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ray ray NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seize** | past | the robbers | beautiful Helga | | | then | by animal's white arms and slender waist | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helga=Theme | | 2 | **go down** | past | the sun | | | | moment | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **disappear** | past | sun's last ray | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **change** | past · passive | | animal | | | | into the form of a frog *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into form=Result | | 5 | **ray** | | sun | | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **form** | | | a frog | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/49/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/)