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title: But though he had been endowed with the power of falling into decay… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But though he had been endowed with the power of falling into decay from rust when he pleased, he did not make use of it. Who acts: power, gift. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 112

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But though he had been endowed with the power of falling into decay from rust when he pleased, he did not make use of it.

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**Who acts:** power, gift · **What happens:** endow, fall, not make, use · **To what, where:** gift, decay, use

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, gift), 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:pg27200:133:112
# text = But though he had been endowed with the power of falling into decay from rust when he pleased, he did not make use of it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endow** | past · perfect · passive |  | gift |  |  |  | with the power | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with power=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | the power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into decay from rust *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into decay=Result |
| 3 | **not** **make** | past · do-support | gift | use of use |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | use |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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