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title: Should he never be able here on earth to obtain a light by which eve… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Should he never be able here on earth to obtain a light by which everything written in the Book of Truth should become clear to him? Who acts: point, able. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 45

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Should he never be able here on earth to obtain a light by which everything written in the Book of Truth should become clear to him?

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**Who acts:** point, able · **What happens:** not be, obtain, write, become · **To what, where:** light

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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 (point, able), 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:pg27200:143:45
# text = Should he never be able here on earth to obtain a light by which everything written in the Book of Truth should become clear to him?
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	15	det	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
16	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Truth	Truth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | should | point |  |  | here |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | point *not said here* | a light |  |  |  | by everything | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Theme |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **become** | should | able |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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