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title: She was anxious about Helga, who, three days before, had vanished wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She was anxious about Helga, who, three days before, had vanished with the Christian priest. Who acts: wife, Helga. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, 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 5, sentence 67

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She was anxious about Helga, who, three days before, had vanished with the Christian priest.

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**Who acts:** wife, Helga · **What happens:** be, vanish

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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 (wife, Helga), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:6442`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:87:67
# text = She was anxious about Helga, who, three days before, had vanished with the Christian priest.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | about Helga; anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **vanish** | past · perfect | Helga |  |  |  |  | with the Christian priest; before *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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