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title: She saw at last that her work would be useless, more than she could… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw at last that her work would be useless, more than she could accomplish; so she fetched more water, and washed the face of the dead, and then covered it with fresh green leaves; she also brought large boughs and spread over him, and scattered dried leaves between the branches. Who acts: anima
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 60

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She saw at last that her work would be useless, more than she could accomplish; so she fetched more water, and washed the face of the dead, and then covered it with fresh green leaves; she also brought large boughs and spread over him, and scattered dried leaves between the branches.

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**Who acts:** animal, work · **What happens:** see, be, accomplish, fetch, wash, cover · **To what, where:** more water, face, work, large boughs, dried leaves, branches

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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 (animal, work), 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:pg27200:86:60
# text = She saw at last that her work would be useless, more than she could accomplish; so she fetched more water, and washed the face of the dead, and then covered it with fresh green leaves; she also brought large boughs and spread over him, and scattered dried leaves between the branches.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
34	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	also	also	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
44	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
48	over	over	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
53	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	amod	_	_
54	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
55	between	between	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | animal |  |  |  |  | last *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | would | animal's work |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | animal's work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **accomplish** | could | animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fetch** | past | animal | more water |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 6 | **wash** | past | animal *not said here* | the face of the dead |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 7 | **cover** | past | animal *not said here* | work |  |  | then | with fresh green leaves | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with leaf=Theme |
| 8 | **bring** | past | animal | large boughs |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bough=Theme |
| 9 | **spread** | past | animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over skin | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location |
| 10 | **scatter** | past | animal *not said here* | dried leaves |  | the branches |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme between branch=Destination |
| 11 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 12 | **work** |  | animal |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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