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title: Her youngest child, looked for in the midst of prosperity, had sunk… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her youngest child, looked for in the midst of prosperity, had sunk into the grave when only a few weeks old; and at last Christina herself became sick unto death, and lay, forsaken and dying, in a miserable room, amid poverty she might have borne in her younger days, but which was now more painful 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 197

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Her youngest child, looked for in the midst of prosperity, had sunk into the grave when only a few weeks old; and at last Christina herself became sick unto death, and lay, forsaken and dying, in a miserable room, amid poverty she might have borne in her younger days, but which was now more painful to her from the luxuries to which she had lately been accustomed.

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**Who acts:** youngest child, child, amid poverty · **What happens:** look, sink, become, lay, forsake, die · **To what, where:** grave, last Christina, miserable room, child, Christina, luxuries

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest child, child, amid poverty), 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:pg27200:51:197
# text = Her youngest child, looked for in the midst of prosperity, had sunk into the grave when only a few weeks old; and at last Christina herself became sick unto death, and lay, forsaken and dying, in a miserable room, amid poverty she might have borne in her younger days, but which was now more painful to her from the luxuries to which she had lately been accustomed.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
29	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	nsubj	_	_
30	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	amid	amid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux	_	_
52	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	56	amod	_	_
56	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
59	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	nsubj	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
61	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	63	advmod	_	_
62	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	63	advmod	_	_
63	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	advcl	_	_
64	to	to	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obl	_	_
66	from	from	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	luxuries	luxury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl	_	_
69	to	to	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	75	obl	_	_
71	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	75	nsubj	_	_
72	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	75	aux	_	_
73	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	_
74	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	75	aux:pass	_	_
75	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	68	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Christina's youngest child |  |  |  |  | for the midst of prosperity | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for midst=Theme |
| 2 | **sink** | past · perfect | Christina's youngest child *not said here* |  |  | the grave |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | child |  |  | last Christina |  | unto death; sick *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **lay** | infinitive | child *not said here* |  |  | a miserable room |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in room=Destination |
| 5 | **forsake** | participle | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **die** | gerund | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **bear** | might · perfect · passive | amid poverty *not said here* | child |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | past |  |  | Christina | the luxuries | now | painful *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **accustom** | past · perfect · passive |  | child |  |  |  | to the luxuries; lately *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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