--- title: My child!" she exclaimed, "the flower of my heart--my lotus flower o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: My child!" she exclaimed, "the flower of my heart--my lotus flower of the deep water!" and she embraced her child again and wept, and the tears were as a baptism of new life and love for Helga. " Who acts: child, tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:87:22 # text = My child!" she exclaimed, "the flower of my heart--my lotus flower of the deep water!" and she embraced her child again and wept, and the tears were as a baptism of new life and love for Helga. " 1 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 lotus lotus NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 embraced embrace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 baptism baptism NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Helga Helga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | My child | the flower of my heart | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent flower=Topic | | 2 | **embrace** *in a quote* | past | child | heart's child | | | again | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent | | 3 | **weep** *in a quote* | past | child *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the tears | | | | | as a baptism and love; of new life; for Helga | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/23/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/)