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title: As in thought Inge seemed to act over again every sin she had commit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As in thought Inge seemed to act over again every sin she had committed on earth, she trembled, and tears she had never yet been able to weep rushed to her eyes. Who acts: Inge, sin, tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 78

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As in thought Inge seemed to act over again every sin she had committed on earth, she trembled, and tears she had never yet been able to weep rushed to her eyes.

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**Who acts:** Inge, sin, tears · **What happens:** seem, act, commit, tremble, not be, weep · **To what, where:** sin, earth

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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 (Inge, sin, tears), 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:pg27200:37:78
# text = As in thought Inge seemed to act over again every sin she had committed on earth, she trembled, and tears she had never yet been able to weep rushed to her eyes.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Inge	Inge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
28	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	xcomp	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Inge |  |  |  |  | as thought | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **act** | to-infinitive | Inge *not said here* | every sin |  |  | again |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent sin=Eventuality |
| 3 | **commit** | past · perfect | sin | every sin *not said here* |  | earth |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Theme |
| 4 | **tremble** | past | sin |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | tears |  |  |  | yet | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **weep** | to-infinitive | tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **rush** | participle | tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to sin's eyes *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to eye=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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