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title: How narrow are the limits which confine the bodily sight, and how li… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How narrow are the limits which confine the bodily sight, and how little can be seen by the eye of the soul. Who acts: narrow limits, eye. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 34

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How narrow are the limits which confine the bodily sight, and how little can be seen by the eye of the soul.

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**Who acts:** narrow limits, eye · **What happens:** be, confine, see · **To what, where:** narrow limits, bodily sight

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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 (narrow limits, eye), 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:pg27200:143:34
# text = How narrow are the limits which confine the bodily sight, and how little can be seen by the eye of the soul.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	confine	confine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	bodily	bodily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the narrow limits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **confine** | present | the narrow limits | the bodily sight |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | can · passive | the eye of the soul |  |  |  |  | little *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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