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title: Be that as it may, it did comprehend it; for in our souls there germ… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Be that as it may, it did comprehend it; for in our souls there germinate far greater powers than we poor mortals, despite all our cleverness, have any notion of. Who acts: soul, souls. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 108

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Be that as it may, it did comprehend it; for in our souls there germinate far greater powers than we poor mortals, despite all our cleverness, have any notion of.

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**Who acts:** soul, souls · **What happens:** comprehend, germinate, have · **To what, where:** language, greater powers, notion

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul, souls), 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:pg1597:6:108
# text = Be that as it may, it did comprehend it; for in our souls there germinate far greater powers than we poor mortals, despite all our cleverness, have any notion of.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	germinate	germinate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comprehend** | may · do-support | soul | language |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **germinate** | present | our souls | greater powers |  |  |  | than poor mortals | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | our souls *not said here* | any notion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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