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title: Never would she be able to cling to the mercy of Heaven till she had… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Never would she be able to cling to the mercy of Heaven till she had recovered this other half which was now held fast in the deep water. Who acts: Anne. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 165

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Never would she be able to cling to the mercy of Heaven till she had recovered this other half which was now held fast in the deep water.

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**Who acts:** Anne · **What happens:** not be, cling, recover, hold · **To what, where:** other half, deep water

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (Anne), 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:pg27200:5:165
# text = Never would she be able to cling to the mercy of Heaven till she had recovered this other half which was now held fast in the deep water.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cling	cling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	till	till	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	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	obj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | would | Anne |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cling** | to-infinitive | Anne *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the mercy of Heaven | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to mercy=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **recover** | past · perfect | Anne | this other half |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | past · passive |  | this other half |  | the deep water | now | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in water=Location |

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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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