--- title: Then the mother wrung her hands, fell on her knees, and prayed to ou… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the mother wrung her hands, fell on her knees, and prayed to our Lord: “Oh, hear me not when I pray against Thy will, which is the best! hear me not! hear me not!” Who acts: mother, Death. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Death), 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:pg1597:21:91 # text = Then the mother wrung her hands, fell on her knees, and prayed to our Lord: “Oh, hear me not when I pray against Thy will, which is the best! hear me not! hear me not!” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wrung wring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 prayed pray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 hear hear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 against against ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 37 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 csubj _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ 41 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wring** | past | the mother | mother's hands | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | past | the mother *not said here* | | | mother's knees | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | | 3 | **pray** | past | the mother *not said here* | | our Lord | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Death | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 5 | **pray** *in a quote* | present | Death | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Death | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | Death *not said here* | Death | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/92/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/)