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title: But in the portion of the book entitled "Life after Death" not a sin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the portion of the book entitled "Life after Death" not a single point could he see distinctly. Who acts: single point. 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 43

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But in the portion of the book entitled "Life after Death" not a single point could he see distinctly.

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**Who acts:** single point · **What happens:** entitle, not see · **To what, where:** Life, portion

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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 (single point), 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:pg27200:143:43
# text = But in the portion of the book entitled "Life after Death" not a single point could he see distinctly.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:outer	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entitle** | past |  | Life |  | the portion of the book | after Death |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **see** | could | a single point |  |  |  |  | distinctly *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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