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title: "Their earthly thoughts met, but my cold beam lay between the two, l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Their earthly thoughts met, but my cold beam lay between the two, like the sword of the cherub." Who acts: earthly thoughts, cold beam, homes, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 30

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"Their earthly thoughts met, but my cold beam lay between the two, like the sword of the cherub."

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**Who acts:** earthly thoughts, cold beam, homes, my · **What happens:** meet, lie, think, beam · **To what, where:** two

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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 (earthly thoughts, cold beam, homes, my), 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:pg27200:117:30
# text = "Their earthly thoughts met, but my cold beam lay between the two, like the sword of the cherub."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cherub	cherub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | homes's earthly thoughts |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | past | my cold beam |  |  | the two |  | like the sword of the cherub | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between two=Location |
| 3 | **think** *in a quote* |  | homes *= home* |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **beam** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication 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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