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title: She struggled against these convictions of the truth of Christianity… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She struggled against these convictions of the truth of Christianity for some days, till one evening while watching her mistress she was suddenly taken very ill; her limbs tottered under her, and she sank fainting by the bedside of the sick woman. Who acts: mother, limbs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 82

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She struggled against these convictions of the truth of Christianity for some days, till one evening while watching her mistress she was suddenly taken very ill; her limbs tottered under her, and she sank fainting by the bedside of the sick woman.

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**Who acts:** mother, limbs · **What happens:** struggle, watch, take, totter, sink, faint · **To what, where:** mistress, mother, truth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, limbs), 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:pg27200:67:82
# text = She struggled against these convictions of the truth of Christianity for some days, till one evening while watching her mistress she was suddenly taken very ill; her limbs tottered under her, and she sank fainting by the bedside of the sick woman.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	convictions	conviction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	till	till	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	tottered	totter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	xcomp	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	bedside	bedside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | past | mother |  |  |  | day; evening | against this convictions of the truth of Christianity | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | mother *not said here* | mother's mistress |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past · passive |  | mother |  |  |  | ill, suddenly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **totter** | past | mother's limbs |  |  |  |  | under mother | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under she=Location |
| 5 | **sink** | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **faint** | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the bedside of the sick woman | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **convict** |  |  | the truth of Christianity |  |  |  |  | nom conviction «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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