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title: All was to be seen in living pictures by those who wished it, but al… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All was to be seen in living pictures by those who wished it, but all would have been too much for even the wisest man, and this man dwelt here. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 14

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All was to be seen in living pictures by those who wished it, but all would have been too much for even the wisest man, and this man dwelt here.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** see, wish, be, dwell · **To what, where:** All, living pictures, place

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg27200:143:14
# text = All was to be seen in living pictures by those who wished it, but all would have been too much for even the wisest man, and this man dwelt here.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | All |  | living pictures by those |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wish** | past |  | place |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | for the wisest man; much *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwell** | past | this man |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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