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title: But for this, blind as she was, she would never have found her way h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But for this, blind as she was, she would never have found her way home again; to this thread she must hold fast, and trust not to others or even to herself. Who acts: page. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 192

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But for this, blind as she was, she would never have found her way home again; to this thread she must hold fast, and trust not to others or even to herself.

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**Who acts:** page · **What happens:** be, not find, hold · **To what, where:** way

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (page), 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:pg27200:143:192
# text = But for this, blind as she was, she would never have found her way home again; to this thread she must hold fast, and trust not to others or even to herself.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | page |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **find** | would · perfect | page | page's way |  |  | again | home *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 3 | **hold** | must | page |  |  |  |  | to this thread; to others; fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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