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title: Life still flowed through his warm blood, but still he was to die--h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Life still flowed through his warm blood, but still he was to die--he himself felt it, and all who stood round him knew it also; therefore his wife was already sewing round him the shroud of furs, that she might not afterwards be obliged to touch the dead body. Who acts: Life, all, wife. A sentence 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 20

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Life still flowed through his warm blood, but still he was to die--he himself felt it, and all who stood round him knew it also; therefore his wife was already sewing round him the shroud of furs, that she might not afterwards be obliged to touch the dead body.

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**Who acts:** Life, all, wife · **What happens:** flow, be, feel, stand, know, sew · **To what, where:** warm blood, blood, shroud, wife, dead body

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life, all, wife), 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:pg27200:100:20
# text = Life still flowed through his warm blood, but still he was to die--he himself felt it, and all who stood round him knew it also; therefore his wife was already sewing round him the shroud of furs, that she might not afterwards be obliged to touch the dead body.
1	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	round	round	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
31	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	already	already	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
37	round	round	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
46	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
48	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | past | Life |  |  | Life's warm blood | still |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through blood=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | Life |  |  |  | still | die *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Life | blood |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past |  |  |  |  |  | round Life | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** | past | all | blood |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **sew** | past · progressive | Life's wife | the shroud of furs |  |  |  | round Life; therefore *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shroud=Product |
| 7 | **not** **oblige** | might · passive |  | wife |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 8 | **touch** | to-infinitive |  | the dead body |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Co-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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