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title: She thought of the Viking's wife in the wild moorland, of the gentle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She thought of the Viking's wife in the wild moorland, of the gentle eyes of her foster-mother, and of the tears she had shed over the poor frog-child that now lived in splendor and starry beauty by the waters of the Nile, with air balmy and sweet as spring. Who acts: Helga, poor frog child. A sente
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 20

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She thought of the Viking's wife in the wild moorland, of the gentle eyes of her foster-mother, and of the tears she had shed over the poor frog-child that now lived in splendor and starry beauty by the waters of the Nile, with air balmy and sweet as spring.

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**Who acts:** Helga, poor frog child · **What happens:** think, shed, live · **To what, where:** splendor

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, poor frog child), 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:pg27200:88:20
# text = She thought of the Viking's wife in the wild moorland, of the gentle eyes of her foster-mother, and of the tears she had shed over the poor frog-child that now lived in splendor and starry beauty by the waters of the Nile, with air balmy and sweet as spring.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	moorland	moorland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	ccomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	shed	shed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
37	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
38	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	starry	starry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
53	balmy	balmy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	conj	_	_
56	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	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 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Helga |  |  |  |  | of the Viking's wife in the wild moorland | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shed** | past · perfect | Helga |  |  |  |  | of the tears; over the poor frog child | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of tear=Location |
| 3 | **live** | past | the poor frog child |  |  | splendor and starry beauty | now | by the waters of the Nile | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in splendor=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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