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title: No, his thoughts did not fly so far, and yet they were sinful, sinfu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No, his thoughts did not fly so far, and yet they were sinful, sinful as thoughts born of young hearts, sinful here in the temple, in the presence of Fo and the other holy gods. Who acts: thoughts, homes, occupation. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-si
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 18

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No, his thoughts did not fly so far, and yet they were sinful, sinful as thoughts born of young hearts, sinful here in the temple, in the presence of Fo and the other holy gods.

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**Who acts:** thoughts, homes, occupation · **What happens:** not fly, be, bear, think · **To what, where:** temple, thoughts

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, homes, occupation), 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:pg27200:117:18
# text = No, his thoughts did not fly so far, and yet they were sinful, sinful as thoughts born of young hearts, sinful here in the temple, in the presence of Fo and the other holy gods.
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	sinful	sinful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sinful	sinful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sinful	sinful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Fo	Fo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fly** | past · do-support | occupation's thoughts |  |  | the temple; here |  | in the presence of Fo and the other holy gods; far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in temple=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | homes *= home* |  |  |  | yet | sinful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | homes *= home* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as thoughts | tree rules |
| 4 | **bear** | participle |  | thoughts *not said here* |  |  |  | of young hearts | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **think** |  | occupation |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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