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title: She had wished to keep back a soul from its immortal flight; she had… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had wished to keep back a soul from its immortal flight; she had forgotten her duties towards the living who were left her. Who acts: mother, living. 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 e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 81

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She had wished to keep back a soul from its immortal flight; she had forgotten her duties towards the living who were left her.

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**Who acts:** mother, living · **What happens:** wish, keep back, forget, be · **To what, where:** soul, immortal flight, duties

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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, living), 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:pg27200:17:81
# text = She had wished to keep back a soul from its immortal flight; she had forgotten her duties towards the living who were left her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past · perfect | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **keep back** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | a soul |  | soul's immortal flight |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer soul=Beneficiary from flight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **forget** | past · perfect | mother | mother's duties |  |  |  | towards the living | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the living |  |  |  |  | leave *property* | tree rules |

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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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