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title: He and his sister, two years older than himself, had often wept scal… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He and his sister, two years older than himself, had often wept scalding tears over the story of Him who suffered death on the cross for us all. Who acts: story. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 20

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He and his sister, two years older than himself, had often wept scalding tears over the story of Him who suffered death on the cross for us all.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** weep, scald, suffer · **To what, where:** boy, tears, story, death, cross

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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:pg27200:129:20
# text = He and his sister, two years older than himself, had often wept scalding tears over the story of Him who suffered death on the cross for us all.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	wept	weep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	scalding	scald	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past · perfect · passive |  | boy |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scald** | gerund |  | tears |  | the story of boy |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tear=Patient |
| 3 | **suffer** | past | the story of boy | death |  | the cross for us |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus |

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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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