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title: When the Children of Israel sat weeping by the waters of Babylon, he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Children of Israel sat weeping by the waters of Babylon, he glanced mournfully upon the willows where hung the silent harps. Who acts: Children, friend. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 6

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When the Children of Israel sat weeping by the waters of Babylon, he glanced mournfully upon the willows where hung the silent harps.

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**Who acts:** Children, friend · **What happens:** sit, weep, glance, hang · **To what, where:** silent harps

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, friend), 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:pg27200:99:6
# text = When the Children of Israel sat weeping by the waters of Babylon, he glanced mournfully upon the willows where hung the silent harps.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
7	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	willows	willow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
21	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	harps	harp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the Children of Israel |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **weep** | gerund | the Children of Israel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the waters of Babylon | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **glance** | past | friend |  |  |  |  | upon the willows; mournfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon willow=Theme |
| 4 | **hang** | past |  | the silent harps |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=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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