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title: Every man's mind was to him as a vessel in which something was conco… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every man's mind was to him as a vessel in which something was concocting; every land a kind of mental kitchen. " Who acts: mind, something, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 149

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Every man's mind was to him as a vessel in which something was concocting; every land a kind of mental kitchen. "

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**Who acts:** mind, something, man · **What happens:** be, concoct, mind · **To what, where:** vessel

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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 (mind, something, 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:pg27200:143:149
# text = Every man's mind was to him as a vessel in which something was concocting; every land a kind of mental kitchen. "
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	concocting	concoct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | every man's mind |  |  |  |  | as a vessel and every land | tree rules |
| 2 | **concoct** | past · progressive | something |  |  | a vessel and every land |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mind** |  | every man |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «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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