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title: Was it the effect of prayer and praise that caused this? or, was she… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Was it the effect of prayer and praise that caused this? or, was she shuddering in the cold morning air at the thought of approaching twilight? Who acts: praise, prayer, mercy, thought. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 101

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Was it the effect of prayer and praise that caused this? or, was she shuddering in the cold morning air at the thought of approaching twilight?

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**Who acts:** praise, prayer, mercy, thought · **What happens:** be, cause, shudder, approach · **To what, where:** effect, this, cold morning air, twilight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (praise, prayer, mercy, thought), 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:pg27200:85:101
# text = Was it the effect of prayer and praise that caused this? or, was she shuddering in the cold morning air at the thought of approaching twilight?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shuddering	shudder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | praise | the effect |  |  |  | of prayer and praise | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | past | prayer and praise | this |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition this=Patient |
| 3 | **shudder** | past · progressive | mercy |  |  | the cold morning air |  | at the thought | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at thought=Stimulus |
| 4 | **approach** | gerund | the thought *not said here* | twilight |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twilight=Theme |

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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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