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title: "Thy wishing and thy longing have torn thee, with thy roots, from th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Thy wishing and thy longing have torn thee, with thy roots, from the place which God appointed for thee. Who acts: wishing, place, Thy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 9

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"Thy wishing and thy longing have torn thee, with thy roots, from the place which God appointed for thee.

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**Who acts:** wishing, place, Thy · **What happens:** tear, appoint, wish, long · **To what, where:** thee

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wishing, place, Thy), 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:pg27200:27:9
# text = "Thy wishing and thy longing have torn thee, with thy roots, from the place which God appointed for thee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wishing	wishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Thy wishing and thy longing | thee |  |  |  | with thy roots | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thou=Patient with root=Instrument |
| 2 | **appoint** *in a quote* | past | the place |  |  |  |  | for thee | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom wishing «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **long** *in a quote* |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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