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title: When her mother wept and exclaimed, "Ah, Inge! what grief thou hast… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When her mother wept and exclaimed, "Ah, Inge! what grief thou hast caused thy mother" she would say, "Oh that I had never been born! Who acts: mother, thou, punishment. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 43

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When her mother wept and exclaimed, "Ah, Inge! what grief thou hast caused thy mother" she would say, "Oh that I had never been born!

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**Who acts:** mother, thou, punishment · **What happens:** weep, exclaim, cause, say, not bear · **To what, where:** grief, punishment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mother, thou, punishment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:2684`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:37:43
# text = When her mother wept and exclaimed, "Ah, Inge! what grief thou hast caused thy mother" she would say, "Oh that I had never been born!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
9	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Inge	Inge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	vocative	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
26	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | punishment's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | punishment's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cause** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thou | what grief |  |  |  | Inge *vocative* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer grief=Theme mother=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | would | punishment |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **bear** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | punishment |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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