Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 43

And while she went on combing little Gerda's hair, she thought less and less about her adopted brother Kay, for the old woman could conjure, although she was not a wicked witch; she conjured only a little for her own amusement, and now, because she wanted to keep Gerda.

Who acts: woman, old woman · What happens: go, comb, think, adopt, conjure, not be · To what, where: hair, wicked witch, little, Gerda

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