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title: Affectionate sympathy and self-sacrifice for the unfortunate existed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Affectionate sympathy and self-sacrifice for the unfortunate existed then, just as it does in our own time in many a bright example. Who acts: Affectionate sympathy, ship. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 4

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Affectionate sympathy and self-sacrifice for the unfortunate existed then, just as it does in our own time in many a bright example.

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**Who acts:** Affectionate sympathy, ship · **What happens:** exist, do · **To what, where:** bright example

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Affectionate sympathy, ship), 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:pg27200:159:4
# text = Affectionate sympathy and self-sacrifice for the unfortunate existed then, just as it does in our own time in many a bright example.
1	Affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
10	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | past | Affectionate sympathy and self sacrifice for the unfortunate |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | ship |  |  | a bright example | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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