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title: He thought of all those who had once suffered from starvation, of Sa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought of all those who had once suffered from starvation, of Saint Elizabeth, who once wandered on the earth, the saint of his home and his childhood, the noble Duchess of Thuringia, that highly esteemed lady who visited the poorest villages, bringing hope and relief to the sick inmates. Who ac
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 191

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He thought of all those who had once suffered from starvation, of Saint Elizabeth, who once wandered on the earth, the saint of his home and his childhood, the noble Duchess of Thuringia, that highly esteemed lady who visited the poorest villages, bringing hope and relief to the sick inmates.

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**Who acts:** weather, Elizabeth, esteemed lady · **What happens:** think, suffer, wander, esteem, visit, bring · **To what, where:** starvation, earth, poorest villages, hope, sick inmates

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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, Elizabeth, esteemed lady), 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:pg27200:128:191
# text = He thought of all those who had once suffered from starvation, of Saint Elizabeth, who once wandered on the earth, the saint of his home and his childhood, the noble Duchess of Thuringia, that highly esteemed lady who visited the poorest villages, bringing hope and relief to the sick inmates.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	starvation	starvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Elizabeth	Elizabeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
19	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Thuringia	Thuringia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
40	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	esteemed	esteem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	poorest	poor	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	47	amod	_	_
47	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
50	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	inmates	inmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | weather |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suffer** | past · perfect |  |  |  | starvation |  | once *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **wander** | past | that Elizabeth of Saint and the noble Duchess of Thuringia |  |  | the earth |  | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Trajectory |
| 4 | **esteem** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **visit** | past | that esteemed lady | the poorest villages |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **bring** | gerund | weather *not said here* | hope and relief |  | the sick inmates |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hope=Theme to inmate=Destination |

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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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