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title: But when we see a naughty or a wicked child, we shed tears of sorrow… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But when we see a naughty or a wicked child, we shed tears of sorrow, and for every tear a day is added to our time of trial!" Who acts: we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 55

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But when we see a naughty or a wicked child, we shed tears of sorrow, and for every tear a day is added to our time of trial!"

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** see, shed, add · **To what, where:** naughty, tears, day

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg27200:78:55
# text = But when we see a naughty or a wicked child, we shed tears of sorrow, and for every tear a day is added to our time of trial!"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	naughty	naughty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shed	shed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | we | a naughty or a wicked child |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer naughty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shed** | past | we | tears of sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a day |  |  | time | for every tear | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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