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title: It was there to prove the certainty of eternal life, and on the book… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was there to prove the certainty of eternal life, and on the book glowed one shining word, and only one, the word BELIEVE. Who acts: dust, one. 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 c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 241

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It was there to prove the certainty of eternal life, and on the book glowed one shining word, and only one, the word BELIEVE.

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**Who acts:** dust, one · **What happens:** be, prove, glow, shine, believe · **To what, where:** certainty, one shining word, book

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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 (dust, one), 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:pg27200:143:241
# text = It was there to prove the certainty of eternal life, and on the book glowed one shining word, and only one, the word BELIEVE.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	BELIEVE	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | dust |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive | dust *not said here* | the certainty of eternal life |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent certainty=Theme |
| 3 | **glow** | past |  | one shining word |  | the book |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **believe** | infinitive | one and the word |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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