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title: The spectre of the shore, her own child, had come to her the night b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The spectre of the shore, her own child, had come to her the night before, and had said to her, "Thou hast dug me only half a grave: but thou hast now, for a year and a day, buried me altogether in thy heart, and it is there a mother can best hide her child!" Who acts: spectre, Thou, mother. A sente
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 177

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The spectre of the shore, her own child, had come to her the night before, and had said to her, "Thou hast dug me only half a grave: but thou hast now, for a year and a day, buried me altogether in thy heart, and it is there a mother can best hide her child!"

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**Who acts:** spectre, Thou, mother · **What happens:** come, say, have, dig, bury, be · **To what, where:** Anne, me, heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (spectre, Thou, 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:pg27200:5:177
# text = The spectre of the shore, her own child, had come to her the night before, and had said to her, "Thou hast dug me only half a grave: but thou hast now, for a year and a day, buried me altogether in thy heart, and it is there a mother can best hide her child!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spectre	spectre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	62	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nsubj	_	_
37	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
48	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
57	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	56	expl	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
60	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
61	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	62	nsubj	_	_
62	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
63	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	62	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | the spectre of the shore and Anne's own child |  | Anne |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past · perfect |  |  | Anne |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dig** *in a quote* | past | Thou *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary grave=Result |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  | now; year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bury** *in a quote* | past |  | me |  | thy heart |  | altogether *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in heart=Destination |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | can · present | a mother |  |  |  |  | hide *property* | tree rules |

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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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