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title: They considered the moon alone to be inhabited: they imagined it was… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They considered the moon alone to be inhabited: they imagined it was the real heart of the universe or planetary system, on which the genuine Cosmopolites, or citizens of the world, dwelt. Who acts: Selenites, moon, genuine Cosmopolites. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 115

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They considered the moon alone to be inhabited: they imagined it was the real heart of the universe or planetary system, on which the genuine Cosmopolites, or citizens of the world, dwelt.

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**Who acts:** Selenites, moon, genuine Cosmopolites · **What happens:** consider, inhabit, imagine, be, dwell · **To what, where:** moon, real heart

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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 (Selenites, moon, genuine Cosmopolites), 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:pg1597:6:115
# text = They considered the moon alone to be inhabited: they imagined it was the real heart of the universe or planetary system, on which the genuine Cosmopolites, or citizens of the world, dwelt.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	universe	universe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	planetary	planetary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Cosmopolites	Cosmopolite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
36	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past | Selenites *= selenite* | the moon |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent moon=Attribute |
| 2 | **inhabit** | to-infinitive · passive | Selenites *= selenite* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **imagine** | past | Selenites *= selenite* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | past | moon | the real heart |  |  |  | of the universe or planetary system | tree rules |
| 5 | **dwell** | past | the genuine Cosmopolites |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location |

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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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