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title: The sorrowing mother bent over the little plants, and heard the huma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sorrowing mother bent over the little plants, and heard the human heart beating in each, and recognized the beatings of her child's heart among millions of others. Who acts: sorrowing mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 66

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The sorrowing mother bent over the little plants, and heard the human heart beating in each, and recognized the beatings of her child's heart among millions of others.

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**Who acts:** sorrowing mother · **What happens:** bend, hear, recognize, beat · **To what, where:** sorrowing mother, little plants, human heart beating, each, beatings, 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 (sorrowing mother), 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:pg27200:185:66
# text = The sorrowing mother bent over the little plants, and heard the human heart beating in each, and recognized the beatings of her child's heart among millions of others.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sorrowing	sorrowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	beatings	beating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | participle |  | the sorrowing mother *not said here* |  | the little plants |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over plant=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the sorrowing mother | the human heart beating |  | each |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beating=Stimulus |
| 3 | **recognize** | past | the sorrowing mother *not said here* | the beatings of mother's child's heart |  |  |  | among millions of others | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beating=Stimulus |
| 4 | **beat** |  |  | mother's child's heart |  |  |  |  | nom beating «act 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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