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title: She had a mother in the world still, and the tears of sorrow which a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had a mother in the world still, and the tears of sorrow which a mother sheds for her child will always find their way to the child's heart, but they often increase the torment instead of being a relief. Who acts: punishment, mother, tears, face. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 40

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She had a mother in the world still, and the tears of sorrow which a mother sheds for her child will always find their way to the child's heart, but they often increase the torment instead of being a relief.

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**Who acts:** punishment, mother, tears, face · **What happens:** have, shed, find, increase, be · **To what, where:** mother, world, sorrow, way, torment

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (punishment, mother, tears, 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:pg27200:37:40
# text = She had a mother in the world still, and the tears of sorrow which a mother sheds for her child will always find their way to the child's heart, but they often increase the torment instead of being a relief.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sheds	shed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	often	often	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	increase	increase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	torment	torment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	43	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | punishment | a mother |  | the world | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |
| 2 | **shed** | present | a mother | sorrow |  |  |  | for punishment's child | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Source |
| 3 | **find** | future | the tears of sorrow | face's way |  |  |  | to the child's heart; always *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 4 | **increase** | present | face | the torment |  |  |  | often *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer torment=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | instead a relief | 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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