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title: She bent over her husband, who still slept; her warm, devoted kiss a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She bent over her husband, who still slept; her warm, devoted kiss awakened him, and words of heartfelt love fell from the lips of both. Who acts: mother, husband, warm devoted kiss, words. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 86

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She bent over her husband, who still slept; her warm, devoted kiss awakened him, and words of heartfelt love fell from the lips of both.

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**Who acts:** mother, husband, warm devoted kiss, words · **What happens:** bend, sleep, awaken, fall, kiss, word · **To what, where:** husband, lips, heartfelt love

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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, husband, warm devoted kiss, words), 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:pg27200:17:86
# text = She bent over her husband, who still slept; her warm, devoted kiss awakened him, and words of heartfelt love fell from the lips of both.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	heartfelt	heartfelt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | over mother's husband | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over husband=Location |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | mother's husband |  |  |  | still |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **awaken** | past | mother's warm devoted kiss | husband |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | words of heartfelt love |  |  | the lips of both |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **kiss** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | heartfelt love |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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