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title: He had no tears to shed, and he felt no pain; no thought of Molly ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had no tears to shed, and he felt no pain; no thought of Molly came into his mind. Who acts: weather, thought. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 188

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He had no tears to shed, and he felt no pain; no thought of Molly came into his mind.

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**Who acts:** weather, thought · **What happens:** have, shed, feel, come, think, mind · **To what, where:** tears, pain, mind, Molly

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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 (weather, thought), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:7955`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:128:188
# text = He had no tears to shed, and he felt no pain; no thought of Molly came into his mind.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	shed	shed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | weather | no tears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient |
| 2 | **shed** | to-infinitive | weather *not said here* | no tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **feel** | past | weather | no pain |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | no thought of Molly |  |  | weather's mind |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **think** |  |  | Molly |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **mind** |  | weather |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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