--- title: "Oh, what would I not give to reach my child!" said the weeping moth… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Oh, what would I not give to reach my child!" said the weeping mother; and as she still continued to weep, her eyes fell into the depths of the lake, and became two costly pearls. Who acts: weeping mother, mother, eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/) / 37 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 37 "Oh, what would I not give to reach my child!" said the weeping mother; and as she still continued to weep, her eyes fell into the depths of the lake, and became two costly pearls. **Who acts:** weeping mother, mother, eyes · **What happens:** not give, reach, say, continue, weep, fall · **To what, where:** child, depths, two costly pearls · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (weeping mother, mother, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:185:37 # text = "Oh, what would I not give to reach my child!" said the weeping mother; and as she still continued to weep, her eyes fell into the depths of the lake, and became two costly pearls. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 weeping weeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 weep weep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 41 costly costly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 pearls pearl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | would | the weeping mother *= mother* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reach** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the weeping mother *= mother* *not said here* | my child | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent child=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the weeping mother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **continue** | past | mother | | | | still | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **weep** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fall** | past | mother's eyes | | | | | into the depths of the lake *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into depth=Result | | 7 | **become** | past | mother *not said here* | two costly pearls | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/38/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/)