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title: And tearless, but sunk in bitter reflection, he sat upon his hard co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And tearless, but sunk in bitter reflection, he sat upon his hard couch, and then knelt down--before whom? Who acts: evil. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 209

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And tearless, but sunk in bitter reflection, he sat upon his hard couch, and then knelt down--before whom?

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**Who acts:** evil · **What happens:** sink, sit, kneel down · **To what, where:** tearless, bitter reflection, hard couch

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil), 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:pg27200:151:209
# text = And tearless, but sunk in bitter reflection, he sat upon his hard couch, and then knelt down--before whom?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	tearless	tearless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | participle · passive |  | tearless |  | bitter reflection |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** | past | evil |  |  | evil's hard couch |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon couch=Location |
| 3 | **kneel down** | past | evil *not said here* |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Topic |

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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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