--- title: Grief doesn't vanish, but bit by bit it gets easier to carry. — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics description: Grief doesn't vanish, but bit by bit it gets easier to carry. Who acts: Grief. A sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [When a parent has died](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/) / 38 # When a parent has died, sentence 38 Grief doesn't vanish, but bit by bit it gets easier to carry. **Who acts:** Grief · **What happens:** not vanish, get, carry This is a sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:38 # text = Grief doesn't vanish, but bit by bit it gets easier to carry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2 1 Grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **vanish** | present · do-support | Grief | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | Grief *not said here* | | | | | easy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Grief *not said here* | | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:38`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When a parent has died, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/37/) - next →: [When a parent has died, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/39/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/)