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title: For nights previously the mother had not slept, but in the morning t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For nights previously the mother had not slept, but in the morning twilight of this day she sunk from weariness into a deep sleep; in the mean time the coffin was carried into a distant room, and there nailed down, that she might not hear the blows of the hammer. Who acts: mother, hammer. A sentence
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 15

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For nights previously the mother had not slept, but in the morning twilight of this day she sunk from weariness into a deep sleep; in the mean time the coffin was carried into a distant room, and there nailed down, that she might not hear the blows of the hammer.

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**Who acts:** mother, hammer · **What happens:** not sleep, sink, carry, nail down, not hear, blow · **To what, where:** nights, morning twilight, coffin, distant room, blows

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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 (mother, hammer), 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:pg27200:17:15
# text = For nights previously the mother had not slept, but in the morning twilight of this day she sunk from weariness into a deep sleep; in the mean time the coffin was carried into a distant room, and there nailed down, that she might not hear the blows of the hammer.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
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	8	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	nailed	nail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
43	down	down	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	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 | **not** **sleep** | past · perfect · passive |  | nights |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **sink** | past | mother |  |  | the morning twilight of this day |  | from weariness; into a deep sleep | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **carry** | past · passive |  | the coffin |  | a distant room | time |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **nail down** | participle |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **hear** | might | mother | the blows of the hammer |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus |
| 6 | **blow** |  | the hammer |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «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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