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title: It related the mythus of its birth, told of the power of the sun-lig… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 72

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It related the mythus of its birth, told of the power of the sun-light that spread out its delicate leaves, and forced them to impregnate the air with their incense--and then he thought of the manifold struggles of life, which in like manner awaken the budding flowers of feeling in our bosom.

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**Who acts:** number, sun light, leaves, air, life, our · **What happens:** relate, tell, spread out, force, impregnate, think · **To what, where:** mythus, delicate leaves, leaves, air, manifold struggles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, sun light, leaves, air), 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:pg1597:8:72
# text = It related the mythus of its birth, told of the power of the sun-light that spread out its delicate leaves, and forced them to impregnate the air with their incense--and then he thought of the manifold struggles of life, which in like manner awaken the budding flowers of feeling in our bosom.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	related	relate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mythus	mythus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	impregnate	impregnate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	manifold	manifold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	struggles	struggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
51	awaken	awaken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	parataxis	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	budding	budding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | past | number | the mythus of number's birth |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mythus=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the mythus of number's birth *not said here* |  |  |  | of the power of the sun light | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spread out** | past | the sun light | number's delicate leaves |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme |
| 4 | **force** | past | number *not said here* | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **impregnate** | to-infinitive | leaves *= leaf* *not said here* | the air |  |  |  | with leaves's incense | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Destination with incense=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | air | the manifold struggles of life |  |  | then |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot struggle=Theme |
| 7 | **awaken** | present |  | the manifold struggles of life |  |  |  | like manner | tree rules |
| 8 | **struggle** |  | life |  |  |  |  |  | nom struggle «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **bosom** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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