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title: The black bow signifies mourning, the girl's face points to the same… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The black bow signifies mourning, the girl's face points to the same in a still higher degree; it is preserved in the heart and will never be forgotten. Who acts: black bow, face. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 47

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The black bow signifies mourning, the girl's face points to the same in a still higher degree; it is preserved in the heart and will never be forgotten.

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**Who acts:** black bow, face · **What happens:** signify, point, preserve, not forget · **To what, where:** mourning, same, higher degree, face, heart

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black bow, face), 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:pg27200:22:47
# text = The black bow signifies mourning, the girl's face points to the same in a still higher degree; it is preserved in the heart and will never be forgotten.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | present | the black bow | mourning |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mourning=Theme |
| 2 | **point** | present | the girl's face |  | the same | a higher degree |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to same=Recipient |
| 3 | **preserve** | present · passive |  | face |  | the heart |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **not** **forget** | future · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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