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title: And King Solomon himself had to die at last, and this fact it was wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And King Solomon himself had to die at last, and this fact it was which so often occupied the thoughts of this great man in the castle on the Tree of the Sun. He knew that he also, however high he might tower above other men in wisdom, must one day die. Who acts: King Solomon, fact, Solomon. A sente
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 20

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And King Solomon himself had to die at last, and this fact it was which so often occupied the thoughts of this great man in the castle on the Tree of the Sun. He knew that he also, however high he might tower above other men in wisdom, must one day die.

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**Who acts:** King Solomon, fact, Solomon · **What happens:** have, die, occupy, know, tower · **To what, where:** last, thoughts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (King Solomon, fact, Solomon), 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:pg27200:143:20
# text = And King Solomon himself had to die at last, and this fact it was which so often occupied the thoughts of this great man in the castle on the Tree of the Sun. He knew that he also, however high he might tower above other men in wisdom, must one day die.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
39	also	also	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	however	however	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
46	above	above	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
52	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
53	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl:unmarked	_	_
55	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | King Solomon  Solomon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | to-infinitive | King Solomon  Solomon *not said here* |  |  | last |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **occupy** | past | this fact | the thoughts |  |  |  | often *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer thought=Result |
| 4 | **know** | past | Solomon | the thoughts *not said here* |  |  |  | of this great man in the castle on the Tree of the Sun. | tree rules |
| 5 | **tower** | might | Solomon |  |  |  |  | above other men in wisdom; high *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **die** | must | Solomon |  |  |  | day |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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