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title: The husband kissed her hand, which now lay like a withered leaf, but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The husband kissed her hand, which now lay like a withered leaf, but which a short time before had been diligently employed in deeds of love for them all. Who acts: husband, hand. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 31

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The husband kissed her hand, which now lay like a withered leaf, but which a short time before had been diligently employed in deeds of love for them all.

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**Who acts:** husband, hand · **What happens:** kiss, lay, wither, time, employ · **To what, where:** hand, deeds

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, hand), 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:pg27200:70:31
# text = The husband kissed her hand, which now lay like a withered leaf, but which a short time before had been diligently employed in deeds of love for them all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | the husband | look's hand |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | present | look's hand |  |  |  | now | like a withered leaf | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wither** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **time** |  |  |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **employ** | past · perfect · passive | the husband *not said here* |  |  | deeds of love |  | for husband; diligently *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: for they=Eventuality |

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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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