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title: She gave herself up to her grief, and it tossed her to and fro, as t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She gave herself up to her grief, and it tossed her to and fro, as the sea tosses a ship without compass or rudder. Who acts: mother, grief, sea. 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 every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 20

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She gave herself up to her grief, and it tossed her to and fro, as the sea tosses a ship without compass or rudder.

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**Who acts:** mother, grief, sea · **What happens:** give up, toss · **To what, where:** mother, ship

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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, grief, sea), 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:pg27200:17:20
# text = She gave herself up to her grief, and it tossed her to and fro, as the sea tosses a ship without compass or rudder.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	iobj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fro	fro	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tosses	toss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	rudder	rudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past | mother |  | mother |  |  | to mother's grief | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to grief=Recipient |
| 2 | **toss** | past | grief | mother |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to fro=Recipient |
| 3 | **toss** | present | the sea | a ship |  |  |  | without compass or rudder | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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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