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title: But life did not depart from him--the thread would not break, but th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But life did not depart from him--the thread would not break, but the thread of memory was severed; the thread of his mind had been cut through, and what was still more grievous, a body remained--a living healthy body that wandered about like a troubled spirit. Who acts: life, thread, living healthy
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 67

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But life did not depart from him--the thread would not break, but the thread of memory was severed; the thread of his mind had been cut through, and what was still more grievous, a body remained--a living healthy body that wandered about like a troubled spirit.

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**Who acts:** life, thread, living healthy body, Jurgen · **What happens:** not depart, not break, sever, cut, be, remain · **To what, where:** thread, body

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, thread, living healthy body, Jurgen), 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:pg27200:162:67
# text = But life did not depart from him--the thread would not break, but the thread of memory was severed; the thread of his mind had been cut through, and what was still more grievous, a body remained--a living healthy body that wandered about like a troubled spirit.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	severed	sever	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
31	through	through	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	38	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
38	grievous	grievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
46	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
50	about	about	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	like	like	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **depart** | past · do-support | life |  |  |  |  | from Jurgen | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **break** | would | the thread |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sever** | past · passive |  | the thread of memory |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **cut** | past · perfect · passive |  | the thread of Jurgen's mind |  |  |  | through *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | still | grievous *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **remain** | participle |  | a body *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **wander** | past | a living healthy body |  |  |  |  | like a troubled spirit; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **mind** |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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