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title: The tears of her husband fell on her forehead, but she took no notic… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The tears of her husband fell on her forehead, but she took no notice of him; her thoughts were with her dead child; her whole existence seemed wrapped up in the remembrances of the little one and of every innocent word it had uttered. Who acts: tears, mother, thoughts, whole existence. A sentence o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 13

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The tears of her husband fell on her forehead, but she took no notice of him; her thoughts were with her dead child; her whole existence seemed wrapped up in the remembrances of the little one and of every innocent word it had uttered.

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**Who acts:** tears, mother, thoughts, whole existence, innocent word · **What happens:** fall, take, be, seem, wrap up, utter · **To what, where:** forehead, notice, remembrances, existence, husband, little one

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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 (tears, mother, thoughts, whole existence), 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:pg27200:17:13
# text = The tears of her husband fell on her forehead, but she took no notice of him; her thoughts were with her dead child; her whole existence seemed wrapped up in the remembrances of the little one and of every innocent word it had uttered.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	xcomp	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	remembrances	remembrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
43	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the tears of mother's husband |  |  | mother's forehead |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on forehead=Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | mother | no notice of husband |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | mother's thoughts |  |  |  |  | with mother's dead child | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past | mother's whole existence |  |  | the remembrances of the little one and every innocent word |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **wrap up** | participle | mother's whole existence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **utter** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | every innocent word *not said here* | existence |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 7 | **notice** |  |  | husband |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **think** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **exist** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **remember** |  |  | the little one and every innocent word |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition 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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