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title: He saw that to this earthly sphere above and below were constantly c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw that to this earthly sphere above and below were constantly changing places, and that the position varied according to the spot on which a man found himself. Who acts: man, position. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its de
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 32

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He saw that to this earthly sphere above and below were constantly changing places, and that the position varied according to the spot on which a man found himself.

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**Who acts:** man, position · **What happens:** see, change, vary, accord, find · **To what, where:** that, places, man, spot

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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 (man, position), 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:pg27200:143:32
# text = He saw that to this earthly sphere above and below were constantly changing places, and that the position varied according to the spot on which a man found himself.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sphere	sphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	above	above	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	below	below	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	varied	vary	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	case	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | man | that |  |  |  | to this earthly sphere | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **change** | past · progressive | man *not said here* | places |  |  |  | below, constantly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 3 | **vary** | past | the position |  |  |  |  | accord the spot | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | past | a man | man |  | the spot |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |

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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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