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title: There certainly was a princess of that kind here in Egypt once, who… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There certainly was a princess of that kind here in Egypt once, who came from the Danish land, but she vanished on the evening of her wedding day, many hundred years ago, and never came back. Who acts: princess, Egypt. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mar
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 94

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There certainly was a princess of that kind here in Egypt once, who came from the Danish land, but she vanished on the evening of her wedding day, many hundred years ago, and never came back.

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**Who acts:** princess, Egypt · **What happens:** be, come, vanish, not come back · **To what, where:** Danish land

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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 (princess, Egypt), 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:pg27200:88:94
# text = There certainly was a princess of that kind here in Egypt once, who came from the Danish land, but she vanished on the evening of her wedding day, many hundred years ago, and never came back.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
40	back	back	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a princess of that kind in Egypt |  |  | there |  | certainly, once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the Danish land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **vanish** | past | Egypt |  |  |  | evening | ago *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **come back** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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