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title: She burst into tears at the sight, and in heaven, as she had done wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She burst into tears at the sight, and in heaven, as she had done when a little child on earth, she wept and prayed for poor Inge. Who acts: woman, little child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 76

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She burst into tears at the sight, and in heaven, as she had done when a little child on earth, she wept and prayed for poor Inge.

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**Who acts:** woman, little child · **What happens:** burst, do, weep, pray · **To what, where:** tears

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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 (woman, little child), 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:pg27200:37:76
# text = She burst into tears at the sight, and in heaven, as she had done when a little child on earth, she wept and prayed for poor Inge.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Inge	Inge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | woman |  |  | tears |  | at the sight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weep** | past | a little child on earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pray** | past | a little child on earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for poor Inge | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for inge=Theme |

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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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