--- title: He came to her, and she placed the golden circlet round his neck, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He came to her, and she placed the golden circlet round his neck, and begged him to deliver it safely to the Viking's wife, so that she might know that her foster-daughter still lived, was happy, and had not forgotten her. Who acts: stork, Helga, foster daughter. 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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 (stork, Helga, foster daughter), 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:pg27200:88:42 # text = He came to her, and she placed the golden circlet round his neck, and begged him to deliver it safely to the Viking's wife, so that she might know that her foster-daughter still lived, was happy, and had not forgotten her. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 circlet circlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 round round ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 safely safely ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Viking Viking PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 33 mark _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 49 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | stork | | Helga | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **place** | past | Helga | the golden circlet | | | | round stork's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent circlet=Theme | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | stork *not said here* | | stork | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **deliver** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | stork *not said here* | circlet | the Viking's wife | | | safely *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wife=Destination | | 5 | **know** | might | Helga | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **live** | past | Helga's foster daughter | | | | still | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **forget** | past · perfect | | Helga | | | | | tree rules | 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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/43/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/)