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title: A leaf on which my sorrows I relate-- Dark story of a darker night o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A leaf on which my sorrows I relate-- Dark story of a darker night of fate. Who acts: leaf, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 31

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A leaf on which my sorrows I relate-- Dark story of a darker night of fate.

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**Who acts:** leaf, my · **What happens:** relate, sorrow · **To what, where:** Dark story

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, my), 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:pg27200:42:31
# text = A leaf on which my sorrows I relate-- Dark story of a darker night of fate.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	relate	relate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | present | a leaf on my sorrows | Dark story of a darker night of fate |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 2 | **sorrow** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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