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title: Then she pressed the bramble to her bosom quite close, so that it mi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she pressed the bramble to her bosom quite close, so that it might be thawed, and the thorns pierced her flesh, and great drops of blood flowed; but the bramble shot forth fresh green leaves, and they became flowers on the cold winter's night, so warm is the heart of a sorrowing mother. Who act
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 29

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Then she pressed the bramble to her bosom quite close, so that it might be thawed, and the thorns pierced her flesh, and great drops of blood flowed; but the bramble shot forth fresh green leaves, and they became flowers on the cold winter's night, so warm is the heart of a sorrowing mother.

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**Who acts:** Death, thorns, great drops, bramble, drops · **What happens:** press, thaw, pierce, flow, shoot, become · **To what, where:** bramble, flesh, fresh green leaves, flowers, warm heart

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death, thorns, great drops, bramble), 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:pg27200:185:29
# text = Then she pressed the bramble to her bosom quite close, so that it might be thawed, and the thorns pierced her flesh, and great drops of blood flowed; but the bramble shot forth fresh green leaves, and they became flowers on the cold winter's night, so warm is the heart of a sorrowing mother.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bramble	bramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	thawed	thaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	flowed	flow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bramble	bramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
45	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	xcomp	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	's	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
55	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	61	amod	_	_
61	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | past | Death | the bramble |  |  | then | to Death's bosom; close *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bramble=Theme |
| 2 | **thaw** | might · passive |  | bramble |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **pierce** | past | the thorns | Death's flesh |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient |
| 4 | **flow** | participle | great drops of blood |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shoot** | past | the bramble | fresh green leaves |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
| 6 | **become** | past | drops *= drop* | flowers |  |  | night |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | present |  | the warm heart |  |  |  | of a sorrowing mother | tree rules |
| 8 | **sorrow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **bosom** |  | Death |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: 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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