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title: With tearful eyes and mournful glances, the sorrowing daughters and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: With tearful eyes and mournful glances, the sorrowing daughters and the afflicted husband looked upon her who would not hear their words of comfort; and, indeed, what comforting words could they speak, when they were themselves so full of grief? Who acts: afflicted husband, comforting words, daughte
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 22

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With tearful eyes and mournful glances, the sorrowing daughters and the afflicted husband looked upon her who would not hear their words of comfort; and, indeed, what comforting words could they speak, when they were themselves so full of grief?

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**Who acts:** afflicted husband, comforting words, daughters · **What happens:** sorrow, afflict, look, not hear, speak, be · **To what, where:** words, comfort · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (afflicted husband, comforting words, daughters), 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:pg27200:17:22
# text = With tearful eyes and mournful glances, the sorrowing daughters and the afflicted husband looked upon her who would not hear their words of comfort; and, indeed, what comforting words could they speak, when they were themselves so full of grief?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	tearful	tearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	glances	glance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	obj	_	_
32	comforting	comforting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	43	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	advcl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sorrow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **afflict** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **look** | past | the afflicted husband |  |  |  |  | with tearful eyes and mournful glances and the sorrowing daughters | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **hear** | would |  | daughters's words of comfort |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | comforting words |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  | of grief; full *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **word** |  | daughters *= daughter* | comfort |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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