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description: He has hard-hearted ministering spirits on earth, who do according to their own will, and heed not a mother's prayers." Who acts: God, hearted ministering spirits, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 8

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He has hard-hearted ministering spirits on earth, who do according to their own will, and heed not a mother's prayers."

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**Who acts:** God, hearted ministering spirits, mother · **What happens:** have, minister, do, accord, pray · **To what, where:** hearted ministering spirits, earth

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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 (God, hearted ministering spirits, 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:pg27200:17:8
# text = He has hard-hearted ministering spirits on earth, who do according to their own will, and heed not a mother's prayers."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	ministering	minister	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | God | hearted ministering spirits |  | earth |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient |
| 2 | **minister** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | hearted ministering spirits |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accord** | future | hearted ministering spirits *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pray** |  | a mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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