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title: His mental powers here below were not strong enough to reach the tre… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His mental powers here below were not strong enough to reach the treasures lying beyond this life, and which his destiny ordained he should obtain. Who acts: mental powers, treasures, destiny, Care. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its depe
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 126

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His mental powers here below were not strong enough to reach the treasures lying beyond this life, and which his destiny ordained he should obtain.

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**Who acts:** mental powers, treasures, destiny, Care · **What happens:** not be, reach, lie, ordain, obtain · **To what, where:** treasures, life

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (mental powers, treasures, destiny, Care), 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:pg1597:9:126
# text = His mental powers here below were not strong enough to reach the treasures lying beyond this life, and which his destiny ordained he should obtain.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	below	below	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	destiny	destiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ordained	ordain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Care's mental powers |  |  |  |  | enough, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Care's mental powers *not said here* | the treasures |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the treasures *not said here* |  |  | this life |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond life=Location |
| 4 | **ordain** | past | Care's destiny |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **obtain** | should | Care |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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