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title: The dead Christian priest desired that the sleeping woman should be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The dead Christian priest desired that the sleeping woman should be lifted on the horse, but the horse sank beneath the load, as if he had been a funeral pall fluttering in the wind. Who acts: dead Christian priest, horse, King, funeral pall. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 15

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The dead Christian priest desired that the sleeping woman should be lifted on the horse, but the horse sank beneath the load, as if he had been a funeral pall fluttering in the wind.

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**Who acts:** dead Christian priest, horse, King, funeral pall · **What happens:** desire, lift, sink, be, flutter · **To what, where:** sleeping woman, funeral pall, wind

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dead Christian priest, horse, King, funeral pall), 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:pg27200:87:15
# text = The dead Christian priest desired that the sleeping woman should be lifted on the horse, but the horse sank beneath the load, as if he had been a funeral pall fluttering in the wind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
21	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	pall	pall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
33	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | past | the dead Christian priest |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **lift** | should · passive |  | the sleeping woman |  |  |  | on the horse | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on horse=Destination |
| 3 | **sink** | past | the horse |  |  |  |  | beneath the load | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | King | a funeral pall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **flutter** | gerund | a funeral pall *not said here* |  |  | the wind |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location |

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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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