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title: He thought of her as she went about speaking words of comfort, bindi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought of her as she went about speaking words of comfort, binding up the wounds of the afflicted and feeding the hungry, although often blamed for it by her stern husband. Who acts: weather, Lady. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Night
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 193

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He thought of her as she went about speaking words of comfort, binding up the wounds of the afflicted and feeding the hungry, although often blamed for it by her stern husband.

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**Who acts:** weather, Lady · **What happens:** think, go, speak, bind up, afflict, feed · **To what, where:** wounds, hungry, comfort · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, 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:pg27200:128:193
# text = He thought of her as she went about speaking words of comfort, binding up the wounds of the afflicted and feeding the hungry, although often blamed for it by her stern husband.
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	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	binding	bind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	often	often	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	blamed	blame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | of Lady | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Lady |  |  |  |  | about speaking words of comfort | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about word=Location |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bind up** | gerund | Lady *not said here* | the wounds |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 5 | **afflict** | participle |  | the wounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **feed** | gerund |  | the hungry |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hungry=Recipient |
| 7 | **blame** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for soul; by Lady's stern husband; often *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for it=Attribute |
| 8 | **word** |  |  | comfort |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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