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title: And then, in ungodly despair, she cast herself down into the deep ro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then, in ungodly despair, she cast herself down into the deep rocky gulf. Who acts: Babette. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 22

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And then, in ungodly despair, she cast herself down into the deep rocky gulf.

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**Who acts:** Babette · **What happens:** cast down · **To what, where:** Babette, ungodly despair

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette), 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:pg27200:65:22
# text = And then, in ungodly despair, she cast herself down into the deep rocky gulf.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast down** | past | Babette | Babette |  | ungodly despair | then | into the deep rocky gulf | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent herself=Material into gulf=Product |

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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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