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title: Day and night she had attended to the sick child, nursing and carryi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Day and night she had attended to the sick child, nursing and carrying it in her bosom, as a part of herself. Who acts: Day, mother. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 5

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Day and night she had attended to the sick child, nursing and carrying it in her bosom, as a part of herself.

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**Who acts:** Day, mother · **What happens:** attend, nurse, carry, bosom · **To what, where:** child, bosom

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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 (Day, mother), 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:pg27200:17:5
# text = Day and night she had attended to the sick child, nursing and carrying it in her bosom, as a part of herself.
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	nursing	nurse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | past · perfect | Day and night |  |  |  |  | to the sick child | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to child=Theme |
| 2 | **nurse** | gerund | Day and night *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a part of mother | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | Day and night *not said here* | child |  | mother's bosom |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in bosom=Location |
| 4 | **bosom** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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