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title: You have genius; but clear-sighted, calm discretion does not take su… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You have genius; but clear-sighted, calm discretion does not take such lofty flights, and utter such high natural tones. Who acts: You, calm discretion. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 19

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You have genius; but clear-sighted, calm discretion does not take such lofty flights, and utter such high natural tones.

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**Who acts:** You, calm discretion · **What happens:** have, sight, not take · **To what, where:** genius, such lofty flights

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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 (You, calm discretion), 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:pg1597:9:19
# text = You have genius; but clear-sighted, calm discretion does not take such lofty flights, and utter such high natural tones.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	sighted	sight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	discretion	discretion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	flights	flight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | You | genius |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient |
| 2 | **sight** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **take** | present · do-support | calm discretion | such lofty flights and utter such high natural tones |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme |

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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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