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title: Every invention already in existence or yet to be, was known to him,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every invention already in existence or yet to be, was known to him, and much more; still everything on earth has a limit. Who acts: everything. 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 cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 17

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Every invention already in existence or yet to be, was known to him, and much more; still everything on earth has a limit.

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**Who acts:** everything · **What happens:** know, have · **To what, where:** invention, man, limit

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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 (everything), 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:pg27200:143:17
# text = Every invention already in existence or yet to be, was known to him, and much more; still everything on earth has a limit.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | every invention in existence | man |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | everything | a limit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=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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