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title: For many heavy days and dark nights the heart must suffer to enable… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For many heavy days and dark nights the heart must suffer to enable it to endure trial and temptation; yet, amidst it all, would the minstrel sing. Who acts: heart, fugitive. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 55

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For many heavy days and dark nights the heart must suffer to enable it to endure trial and temptation; yet, amidst it all, would the minstrel sing.

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**Who acts:** heart, fugitive · **What happens:** suffer, enable, endure · **To what, where:** fugitive, trial

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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 (heart, fugitive), 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:pg27200:129:55
# text = For many heavy days and dark nights the heart must suffer to enable it to endure trial and temptation; yet, amidst it all, would the minstrel sing.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	temptation	temptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | must | the heart |  |  |  | yet; day | amidst fugitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **enable** | to-infinitive | the heart *not said here* | fugitive |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **endure** | to-infinitive | fugitive *not said here* | trial and temptation |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trial=Circumstance |

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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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