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title: Poor child! thy friend's bridal chamber is a black coffin, and thou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor child! thy friend's bridal chamber is a black coffin, and thou becomest an old maid. Who acts: Poor child, thou. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 29

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Poor child! thy friend's bridal chamber is a black coffin, and thou becomest an old maid.

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**Who acts:** Poor child, thou · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** black coffin, old maid

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor child, thou), 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:pg27200:3:29
# text = Poor child! thy friend's bridal chamber is a black coffin, and thou becomest an old maid.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	becomest	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Poor child | a black coffin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | present | thou | a old maid |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient maid=Result |

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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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