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title: I missed my good old mother and the dear little ones; who almost tea… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I missed my good old mother and the dear little ones; who almost tear me to pieces for sheer love.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 83

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I missed my good old mother and the dear little ones; who almost tear me to pieces for sheer love.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** miss, tear · **To what, where:** good old mother, me

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg1597:6:83
# text = I missed my good old mother and the dear little ones; who almost tear me to pieces for sheer love.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	tear	tear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	sheer	sheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | past | I | my good old mother and the dear little ones |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tear** | present |  | me |  |  |  | to pieces for sheer love *result*; almost *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to piece=Result |

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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:** «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.

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