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title: But one day, while hunger and grief were gnawing in her hollow frame… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But one day, while hunger and grief were gnawing in her hollow frame, she heard a little, innocent child, while listening to the tale of the vain, haughty Inge, burst into tears and exclaim, "But will she never come up again?" Who acts: hunger, girl, vain haughty Inge. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 50

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But one day, while hunger and grief were gnawing in her hollow frame, she heard a little, innocent child, while listening to the tale of the vain, haughty Inge, burst into tears and exclaim, "But will she never come up again?"

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**Who acts:** hunger, girl, vain haughty Inge · **What happens:** gnaw, hear, listen, burst, exclaim, not come up · **To what, where:** one day, hollow frame, little innocent child, tears · **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 (hunger, girl, vain haughty Inge), 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:pg27200:37:50
# text = But one day, while hunger and grief were gnawing in her hollow frame, she heard a little, innocent child, while listening to the tale of the vain, haughty Inge, burst into tears and exclaim, "But will she never come up again?"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Inge	Inge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	exclaim	exclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
48	up	up	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	again	again	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gnaw** | past · progressive | hunger and grief | one day *not said here* |  | girl's hollow frame |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | past | girl | a little innocent child |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 3 | **listen** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the tale of the vain haughty Inge | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme |
| 4 | **burst** | past |  |  |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **come up** *in a quote* | future | girl |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** |  | the vain haughty Inge |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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