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title: Sight and hearing have always been considered two of the chief sense… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sight and hearing have always been considered two of the chief senses among men, and those which they wish to keep bright; the other senses are looked upon as of less importance. Who acts: two, eldest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 146

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Sight and hearing have always been considered two of the chief senses among men, and those which they wish to keep bright; the other senses are looked upon as of less importance.

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**Who acts:** two, eldest · **What happens:** consider, sense, wish, keep, look · **To what, where:** Sight, other senses

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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 (two, eldest), 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:pg27200:143:146
# text = Sight and hearing have always been considered two of the chief senses among men, and those which they wish to keep bright; the other senses are looked upon as of less importance.
1	Sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	senses	sense	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	xcomp	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	34	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present · perfect · passive |  | Sight and hearing |  |  |  | always *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **sense** | present | two of the chief |  |  |  |  | among men | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **wish** | present | eldest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | eldest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | present · passive |  | the other senses |  |  |  | as less importance | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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