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title: He had drunk the bitter goblet of love which softens or hardens the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had drunk the bitter goblet of love which softens or hardens the heart, according to circumstances. Who acts: Jurgen, bitter goblet. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 94

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He had drunk the bitter goblet of love which softens or hardens the heart, according to circumstances.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, bitter goblet · **What happens:** drink, soften, harden, accord · **To what, where:** bitter goblet, heart

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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 (Jurgen, bitter goblet), 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:pg27200:161:94
# text = He had drunk the bitter goblet of love which softens or hardens the heart, according to circumstances.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	softens	soften	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hardens	harden	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **drink** | past · perfect | Jurgen | the bitter goblet of love |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Patient |
| 2 | **soften** | present | the bitter goblet of love |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **harden** | present | the bitter goblet of love *not said here* | the heart |  |  |  | accord circumstances | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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