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title: But these doubts were no support to her, nothing on which she could… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But these doubts were no support to her, nothing on which she could rest, and she sunk into the fathomless depths of despair. Who acts: doubts, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 11

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But these doubts were no support to her, nothing on which she could rest, and she sunk into the fathomless depths of despair.

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**Who acts:** doubts, mother · **What happens:** be, rest, sink · **To what, where:** support, mother, fathomless depths

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubts, mother), 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:pg27200:17:11
# text = But these doubts were no support to her, nothing on which she could rest, and she sunk into the fathomless depths of despair.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	doubts	doubt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sunk	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fathomless	fathomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this doubts | no support | mother |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rest** | could | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 3 | **sink** | past | mother |  |  | the fathomless depths of despair |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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