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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 47

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He found out the nature of plants and metals, and their power in curing diseases and arresting death, but none to destroy death itself.

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**Who acts:** point, power, none · **What happens:** find out, cure, arrest, destroy · **To what, where:** nature, diseases, death

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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, power, none), 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:pg27200:143:47
# text = He found out the nature of plants and metals, and their power in curing diseases and arresting death, but none to destroy death itself.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	curing	cure	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	arresting	arrest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	25	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | past | point | the nature of plants and metals |  |  |  | metals's power *obl* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Topic |
| 2 | **cure** | gerund | metals's power *not said here* | diseases |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer disease=Source |
| 3 | **arrest** | gerund | metals's power *not said here* | death |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient |
| 4 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | none | death  nature |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=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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