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title: I am only a woman and a sinner before God, but I should not have the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I am only a woman and a sinner before God, but I should not have the heart to let even the worst sinner burn for ever, and how could our Lord to do so, who is so infinitely good, and who knows how the wickedness comes from without and within? Who acts: I, heart, wickedness. A sentence of «Fairy Tale
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 19

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I am only a woman and a sinner before God, but I should not have the heart to let even the worst sinner burn for ever, and how could our Lord to do so, who is so infinitely good, and who knows how the wickedness comes from without and within?

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**Who acts:** I, heart, wickedness · **What happens:** be, not have, let, do, know, come · **To what, where:** woman, heart, worst sinner burn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heart, wickedness), 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:pg27200:2:19
# text = I am only a woman and a sinner before God, but I should not have the heart to let even the worst sinner burn for ever, and how could our Lord to do so, who is so infinitely good, and who knows how the wickedness comes from without and within?
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sinner	sinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
24	sinner	sinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	infinitely	infinitely	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
47	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	ccomp	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	without	without	ADP	IN	_	50	advmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	within	within	ADP	IN	_	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | a woman and a sinner before God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** | should | I | the heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | to-infinitive | the heart *not said here* | the worst sinner burn |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent burn=Theme for ever=Asset |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | the heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good, infinitely *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **come** | present | the wickedness |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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