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title: His faith had grown strong in the poor fisherman's cottage; the ligh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His faith had grown strong in the poor fisherman's cottage; the light which had never shone into his father's mind, in all the richness and sunshine of Spain, was sent to him to be his comfort in poverty and distress, a sign of that mercy of God which never fails. Who acts: faith, God, father. A sen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 45

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His faith had grown strong in the poor fisherman's cottage; the light which had never shone into his father's mind, in all the richness and sunshine of Spain, was sent to him to be his comfort in poverty and distress, a sign of that mercy of God which never fails.

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**Who acts:** faith, God, father · **What happens:** grow, not shine, send, be, not fail, mind · **To what, where:** cottage, light, mind, Jurgen, comfort, poverty

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faith, God, father), 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:pg27200:161:45
# text = His faith had grown strong in the poor fisherman's cottage; the light which had never shone into his father's mind, in all the richness and sunshine of Spain, was sent to him to be his comfort in poverty and distress, a sign of that mercy of God which never fails.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	richness	richness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	advcl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
55	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	fails	fail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect | Jurgen's faith |  |  | the poor fisherman's cottage |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location |
| 2 | **not** **shine** | past · perfect · passive |  | the light |  | Jurgen's father's mind |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past · passive |  | the light | Jurgen |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | Jurgen's comfort and a sign of that mercy of God |  | poverty and distress |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **fail** | present | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **mind** |  | Jurgen's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **sign** |  |  | that mercy of God |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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