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description: It seemed as if she would never again know sleep, and yet it would have been her best friend, one who would have strengthened her body and poured peace into her soul. Who acts: It, word, sleep. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 23

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It seemed as if she would never again know sleep, and yet it would have been her best friend, one who would have strengthened her body and poured peace into her soul.

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**Who acts:** It, word, sleep · **What happens:** seem, know, be, strengthen, pour · **To what, where:** sleep, best friend, body, peace, soul

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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 (It, word, sleep), 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:pg27200:17:23
# text = It seemed as if she would never again know sleep, and yet it would have been her best friend, one who would have strengthened her body and poured peace into her soul.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	appos	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **seem** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | word | sleep |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | would · perfect | sleep | word's best friend |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **strengthen** | would · perfect · passive |  | word's body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pour** | past |  | peace |  | word's soul |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent peace=Theme into soul=Destination |

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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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