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title: Then Death breathed upon her hands, and she felt his breath colder t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Death breathed upon her hands, and she felt his breath colder than the icy wind, and her hands sank down powerless. Who acts: Death, hands. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 75

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Then Death breathed upon her hands, and she felt his breath colder than the icy wind, and her hands sank down powerless.

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**Who acts:** Death, hands · **What happens:** breathe, feel, sink down · **To what, where:** breath, powerless

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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, hands), 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:pg27200:185:75
# text = Then Death breathed upon her hands, and she felt his breath colder than the icy wind, and her hands sank down powerless.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	powerless	powerless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | past | Death |  |  |  | then | upon Death's hands | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Death | flower's breath |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 3 | **sink down** | past | Death's hands | powerless |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent powerless=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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