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title: The pious old wife of the merchant repeated these words from the Psa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The pious old wife of the merchant repeated these words from the Psalms of David in patience and hope, and the prayer of her heart was that Jurgen might soon be called away to enter into eternal life. Who acts: pious old wife, heart. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 82

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The pious old wife of the merchant repeated these words from the Psalms of David in patience and hope, and the prayer of her heart was that Jurgen might soon be called away to enter into eternal life.

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**Who acts:** pious old wife, heart · **What happens:** repeat, call away, enter, pray · **To what, where:** words, Psalms, prayer, eternal life

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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 (pious old wife, heart), 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:pg27200:162:82
# text = The pious old wife of the merchant repeated these words from the Psalms of David in patience and hope, and the prayer of her heart was that Jurgen might soon be called away to enter into eternal life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Psalms	Psalm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | the pious old wife of the merchant | this words |  | the Psalms of David |  | in patience and hope | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call away** *speech: assert* | might · past · passive |  | the prayer of wife's heart |  |  |  | away, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **enter** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | eternal life |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into life=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **pray** |  | wife's heart |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=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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