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title: The wise man knew how to unite the sunlight and the moonlight with t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wise man knew how to unite the sunlight and the moonlight with the light of reason and the hidden powers of nature; and through this stronger light, many things in the pages were made clear to him. Who acts: wise man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 42

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The wise man knew how to unite the sunlight and the moonlight with the light of reason and the hidden powers of nature; and through this stronger light, many things in the pages were made clear to him.

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**Who acts:** wise man · **What happens:** know, unite, make, light · **To what, where:** sunlight, many things, stronger light, reason

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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 (wise man), 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:pg27200:143:42
# text = The wise man knew how to unite the sunlight and the moonlight with the light of reason and the hidden powers of nature; and through this stronger light, many things in the pages were made clear to him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	unite	unite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
38	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the wise man |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **unite** | to-infinitive | the wise man *not said here* | the sunlight and the moonlight |  |  |  | with the light of reason and the hidden powers of nature | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient with light=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | many things in the pages |  | this stronger light |  | clear *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **light** |  |  | reason and the hidden powers of nature |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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