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title: The next heart was also a sanctuary, which he felt almost unworthy t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The next heart was also a sanctuary, which he felt almost unworthy to enter; it represented a mean garret, in which lay a sick mother; but the warm sunshine streamed through the window, lovely roses bloomed in a little flowerbox on the roof, two blue birds sang of childlike joys, and the sick mother
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 48

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The next heart was also a sanctuary, which he felt almost unworthy to enter; it represented a mean garret, in which lay a sick mother; but the warm sunshine streamed through the window, lovely roses bloomed in a little flowerbox on the roof, two blue birds sang of childlike joys, and the sick mother prayed for a blessing on her daughter.

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**Who acts:** next heart, sanctuary, two blue birds, sick mother · **What happens:** be, feel, enter, represent, lie, stream · **To what, where:** sanctuary, mean garret, sick mother, warm sunshine, window, little flowerbox

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next heart, sanctuary, two blue birds, sick mother), 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:pg27200:43:48
# text = The next heart was also a sanctuary, which he felt almost unworthy to enter; it represented a mean garret, in which lay a sick mother; but the warm sunshine streamed through the window, lovely roses bloomed in a little flowerbox on the roof, two blue birds sang of childlike joys, and the sick mother prayed for a blessing on her daughter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	flowerbox	flowerbox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
51	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
53	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	childlike	childlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	joys	joy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	conj	_	_
63	for	for	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
66	on	on	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	68	nmod:poss	_	_
68	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the next heart | a sanctuary |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | a sanctuary |  |  |  |  | unworthy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **enter** | to-infinitive | a sanctuary *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **represent** | past | sanctuary | a mean garret |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot garret=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** | past |  | a sick mother |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mother=Theme |
| 6 | **stream** | participle |  | the warm sunshine *not said here* |  | the window |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location |
| 7 | **bloom** | participle · passive |  | the warm sunshine |  | a little flowerbox on the roof |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | two blue birds |  |  |  |  | of childlike joys | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 9 | **pray** | past | the sick mother |  |  |  |  | for a blessing; on mother's daughter | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for blessing=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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