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title: If you will weep those eyes away in tears into my waters, then I wil… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will weep those eyes away in tears into my waters, then I will take you to the large hothouse where Death dwells and rears flowers and trees, every one of which is a human life." Who acts: you, I, Death, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 36

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If you will weep those eyes away in tears into my waters, then I will take you to the large hothouse where Death dwells and rears flowers and trees, every one of which is a human life."

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**Who acts:** you, I, Death, one · **What happens:** weep away, take, dwell, rear, be · **To what, where:** eyes, tears, you, large hothouse, flowers

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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 (you, I, Death, one), 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:pg27200:185:36
# text = If you will weep those eyes away in tears into my waters, then I will take you to the large hothouse where Death dwells and rears flowers and trees, every one of which is a human life."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hothouse	hothouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
24	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	rears	rear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep away** | future | you | that eyes |  | tears |  | into my waters; away *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | future | I | you |  | the large hothouse | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to hothouse=Destination |
| 3 | **dwell** | present | Death |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rear** | present | Death *not said here* | flowers and trees |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | every one |  |  |  |  | of a human life | 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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