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title: "Father of all mercy, grant Thou to her the peace that I was unable… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Father of all mercy, grant Thou to her the peace that I was unable to procure for her!" Who acts: grant, peace. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 85

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"Father of all mercy, grant Thou to her the peace that I was unable to procure for her!"

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**Who acts:** grant, peace · **What happens:** peace, be, procure · **To what, where:** Father

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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 (grant, peace), 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:pg27200:2:85
# text = "Father of all mercy, grant Thou to her the peace that I was unable to procure for her!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	procure	procure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peace** *in a quote* |  | grant | Father of all mercy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the peace |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **procure** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the peace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for mercy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary |

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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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