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title: No; their sighs and lamentations still sounded from above; and she h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No; their sighs and lamentations still sounded from above; and she had nearly forgotten them, for the sake of him who was dead. Who acts: sighs, mother, sake, daughters. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 75

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No; their sighs and lamentations still sounded from above; and she had nearly forgotten them, for the sake of him who was dead.

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**Who acts:** sighs, mother, sake, daughters · **What happens:** sound, forget, be, sigh · **To what, where:** sighs

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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 (sighs, mother, sake, 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:pg27200:17:75
# text = No; their sighs and lamentations still sounded from above; and she had nearly forgotten them, for the sake of him who was dead.
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	above	above	ADV	RB	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | daughters's sighs and lamentations |  |  |  | still |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **forget** | past · perfect | mother | sighs *= sigh* |  |  |  | for the sake of husband; nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the sake of husband |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sigh** |  | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sigh «communication 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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