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title: She wept over it, kissed it, and prayed for it as only a mother can… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She wept over it, kissed it, and prayed for it as only a mother can pray in that hour of her anguish." Who acts: queen, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 26

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She wept over it, kissed it, and prayed for it as only a mother can pray in that hour of her anguish."

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**Who acts:** queen, mother · **What happens:** weep, kiss, pray, anguish · **To what, where:** crown

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, mother), 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:pg27200:81:26
# text = She wept over it, kissed it, and prayed for it as only a mother can pray in that hour of her anguish."
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | queen |  |  | crown |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | queen *not said here* | crown |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **pray** | past | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for crown | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **pray** | can | a mother |  |  |  | hour |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **anguish** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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