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title: Now she was gentle and strong as a wife can be; and from her lips ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now she was gentle and strong as a wife can be; and from her lips came the words of faith: "Whatever He doeth is right and best." Who acts: mother, kiss. 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 87

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Now she was gentle and strong as a wife can be; and from her lips came the words of faith: "Whatever He doeth is right and best."

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**Who acts:** mother, kiss · **What happens:** be, come, do, word · **To what, where:** words, lips, Whatever, faith

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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, kiss), 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:pg27200:17:87
# text = Now she was gentle and strong as a wife can be; and from her lips came the words of faith: "Whatever He doeth is right and best."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	doeth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | mother |  |  |  | now | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a wife | tree rules |
| 3 | **can** | can | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past |  | the words of faith |  | mother's lips |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present | kiss | Whatever |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **word** |  |  | faith |  |  |  |  | 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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