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title: The beaming word BELIEVE, from every grain of truth, had the brightn… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The beaming word BELIEVE, from every grain of truth, had the brightness of the beautiful and the good, more bright than the mighty pillar of flame that led Moses and the children of Israel to the land of Canaan, and from the word BELIEVE arose the bridge of hope, reaching even to the unmeasurable Lo
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 247

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The beaming word BELIEVE, from every grain of truth, had the brightness of the beautiful and the good, more bright than the mighty pillar of flame that led Moses and the children of Israel to the land of Canaan, and from the word BELIEVE arose the bridge of hope, reaching even to the unmeasurable Love in the realms of the infinite.

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**Who acts:** beaming word, mighty pillar, BELIEVE · **What happens:** believe, have, lead, arise, reach · **To what, where:** brightness, Moses, land, bridge, word, realms

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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 (beaming word, mighty pillar, BELIEVE), 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:pg27200:143:247
# text = The beaming word BELIEVE, from every grain of truth, had the brightness of the beautiful and the good, more bright than the mighty pillar of flame that led Moses and the children of Israel to the land of Canaan, and from the word BELIEVE arose the bridge of hope, reaching even to the unmeasurable Love in the realms of the infinite.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	beaming	beaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	BELIEVE	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
48	BELIEVE	BELIEVE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	advcl	_	_
56	even	even	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	unmeasurable	unmeasurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	realms	realm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	infinite	infinite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | infinitive | the beaming word |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | the brightness of the beautiful |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brightness=Patient |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the mighty pillar of flame | Moses and the children of Israel |  | the land of Canaan |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent moses=Theme to land=Destination |
| 4 | **arise** | past | BELIEVE | the bridge of hope |  | the word |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bridge=Theme |
| 5 | **reach** | gerund | BELIEVE *not said here* |  |  | the realms of the infinite |  | to the unmeasurable Love | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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