--- title: Her child, her own child, which she had never loved, lay now buried… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Her child, her own child, which she had never loved, lay now buried in the sea, and might rise up, like a spectre, from the waters, and cry, "Hold fast; carry me to consecrated ground!" Who acts: child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:5:116 # text = Her child, her own child, which she had never loved, lay now buried in the sea, and might rise up, like a spectre, from the waters, and cry, "Hold fast; carry me to consecrated ground!" 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 16 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 spectre spectre NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 39 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 consecrated consecrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 amod _ _ 45 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **love** | past · perfect · passive | | Anne's own child | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **lay** | present | | | | | now | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bury** | participle | | | | the sea | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sea=Destination | | 4 | **rise up** | might | | | | the waters | | like a spectre | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from water=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | Anne's child | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | Anne's child *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **carry** *in a quote* | infinitive | Anne's child *not said here* | Anne's child *= child* | | consecrated ground | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to ground=Destination | | 8 | **consecrate** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/117/) - ↑ back to [Anne Lisbeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/)