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title: And she had more real cause for fear than they have, for I might hav… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And she had more real cause for fear than they have, for I might have gnawed through the tree on which her life depended. Who acts: dryad, women, I, life. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 43

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And she had more real cause for fear than they have, for I might have gnawed through the tree on which her life depended.

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**Who acts:** dryad, women, I, life · **What happens:** have, gnaw, depend · **To what, where:** more real cause, fear, tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dryad, women, I, life), 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:pg27200:180:43
# text = And she had more real cause for fear than they have, for I might have gnawed through the tree on which her life depended.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	depended	depend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	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 | **have** | past | dryad | more real cause |  |  |  | for fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | women *= woman* | fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 3 | **gnaw** | might · perfect | I |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **depend** | past | dryad's life |  |  |  |  | on the tree | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on which=Theme |

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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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