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title: Sorrow and suffering deprived Anthony's father of his strength, so t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sorrow and suffering deprived Anthony's father of his strength, so that he had something else to think of besides nursing his love-sorrows and his anger against Molly. Who acts: Sorrow, father, besides. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nigh
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 138

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Sorrow and suffering deprived Anthony's father of his strength, so that he had something else to think of besides nursing his love-sorrows and his anger against Molly.

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**Who acts:** Sorrow, father, besides · **What happens:** deprive, have, think, nurse, sorrow, anger · **To what, where:** father, something, love sorrows

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrow, father, besides), 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:pg27200:128:138
# text = Sorrow and suffering deprived Anthony's father of his strength, so that he had something else to think of besides nursing his love-sorrows and his anger against Molly.
1	Sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	else	else	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	nursing	nurse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deprive** | past | Sorrow and suffering | Anthony's father of father's strength |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Source |
| 2 | **have** | past | father | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  | of besides | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **nurse** | gerund | besides *not said here* | father's love sorrows and father's anger against Molly |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **sorrow** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **anger** |  | father |  |  |  |  | against Molly | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent against=obl |

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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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