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description: She seemed to recognize some of them, as they floated through the regions of death towards the dark curtain, where they vanished. Who acts: mother, sighs. 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 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 73

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She seemed to recognize some of them, as they floated through the regions of death towards the dark curtain, where they vanished.

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**Who acts:** mother, sighs · **What happens:** seem, recognize, float, vanish · **To what, where:** some, regions

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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, sighs), 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:pg27200:17:73
# text = She seemed to recognize some of them, as they floated through the regions of death towards the dark curtain, where they vanished.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **recognize** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus |
| 3 | **float** | past | sighs *= sigh* |  |  | the regions of death |  | towards the dark curtain | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through region=Source towards curtain=Trajectory |
| 4 | **vanish** | past | sighs *= sigh* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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