--- title: The dying mother and the unfortunate child would have found kindness… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The dying mother and the unfortunate child would have found kindness and help wherever they had been cast by the winds, but nowhere would it have been more sincere than in the cottage of the poor fisherman's wife, who had stood, only the day before, beside her child's grave, who would have been five --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/) / 5 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 5 The dying mother and the unfortunate child would have found kindness and help wherever they had been cast by the winds, but nowhere would it have been more sincere than in the cottage of the poor fisherman's wife, who had stood, only the day before, beside her child's grave, who would have been five years old that day if God had spared it to her. **Who acts:** winds, ship, wife, grave, God · **What happens:** die, find, cast, be, stand, spare · **To what, where:** dying mother, mother, grave, ship, child 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 (winds, ship, wife, grave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:159:5 # text = The dying mother and the unfortunate child would have found kindness and help wherever they had been cast by the winds, but nowhere would it have been more sincere than in the cottage of the poor fisherman's wife, who had stood, only the day before, beside her child's grave, who would have been five years old that day if God had spared it to her. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dying die VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 unfortunate unfortunate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux _ _ 10 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 cast cast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux _ _ 28 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 cop _ _ 29 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 30 sincere sincere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 31 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 fisherman fisherman NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 43 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 stood stand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 only only ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl:unmarked _ _ 49 before before ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 51 beside beside ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 52 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 54 's 's PART POS _ 53 case _ _ 55 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 57 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 63 nsubj _ _ 58 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 59 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 63 aux _ _ 60 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 63 cop _ _ 61 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 62 nummod _ _ 62 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 obl:unmarked _ _ 63 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 64 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 65 det _ _ 65 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl:unmarked _ _ 66 if if SCONJ IN _ 69 mark _ _ 67 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 69 nsubj _ _ 68 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 69 aux _ _ 69 spared spare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 63 advcl _ _ 70 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 obj _ _ 71 to to ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 72 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **find** | would · perfect · passive | | the dying mother and the unfortunate child | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme kindness=Attribute | | 3 | **cast** | past · perfect · passive | the winds | mother | | | | wherever *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 4 | **is** | would · perfect | ship | | | | | than the cottage of the poor fisherman's wife; nowhere, sincere *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **stand** | past · perfect | the poor fisherman's wife | | | wife's child's grave | day | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside grave=Location | | 6 | **is** | would · perfect | wife's child's grave | | | | day; year | old *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **spare** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | God | ship | child | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Asset | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/6/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/)