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title: "Ay, free, if only from the unbearable sufferings of the body!" come… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ay, free, if only from the unbearable sufferings of the body!" comes in a sigh through time, and strikes upon our ear. Who acts: body. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 61

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"Ay, free, if only from the unbearable sufferings of the body!" comes in a sigh through time, and strikes upon our ear.

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**Who acts:** body · **What happens:** come, strike, suffer · **To what, where:** sigh, ear

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body), 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:pg27200:190:61
# text = "Ay, free, if only from the unbearable sufferings of the body!" comes in a sigh through time, and strikes upon our ear.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ay	ay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	unbearable	unbearable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present |  |  |  | a sigh through time |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sigh=Location |
| 2 | **strike** | present |  |  |  | our ear |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ear=Location |
| 3 | **suffer** *in a quote* |  | the body |  |  |  |  |  | nom suffering «state intransitive»: of=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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