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title: The recollection of her pious deeds was as light to the soul of poor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The recollection of her pious deeds was as light to the soul of poor Anthony. Who acts: recollection. 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 192

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The recollection of her pious deeds was as light to the soul of poor Anthony.

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**Who acts:** recollection · **What happens:** be, recollect · **To what, where:** pious deeds

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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 (recollection), 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:pg27200:128:192
# text = The recollection of her pious deeds was as light to the soul of poor Anthony.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	recollection	recollection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the recollection of Lady's pious deeds |  |  |  |  | as light; to the soul of poor Anthony | tree rules |
| 2 | **recollect** |  |  | Lady's pious deeds |  |  |  |  | nom recollection «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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