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title: He spoke to them of the true, the beautiful, and the good, and told… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He spoke to them of the true, the beautiful, and the good, and told them that these three held together in the world, and by that union they became crystallized into a precious jewel, clearer than a diamond of the first water--a jewel, whose splendor had a value even in the sight of God, in whose br
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 56

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He spoke to them of the true, the beautiful, and the good, and told them that these three held together in the world, and by that union they became crystallized into a precious jewel, clearer than a diamond of the first water--a jewel, whose splendor had a value even in the sight of God, in whose brightness all things are dim.

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**Who acts:** father, three, union, splendor, things · **What happens:** speak, tell, hold together, crystallize, have, be · **To what, where:** sons, world, precious jewel, value, brightness, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (father, three, union, splendor), 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:pg27200:143:56
# text = He spoke to them of the true, the beautiful, and the good, and told them that these three held together in the world, and by that union they became crystallized into a precious jewel, clearer than a diamond of the first water--a jewel, whose splendor had a value even in the sight of God, in whose brightness all things are dim.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	_
22	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	crystallized	crystallize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	clearer	clear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	conj	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	47	amod	_	_
47	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	even	even	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
67	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	68	det	_	_
68	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	70	nsubj	_	_
69	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	70	cop	_	_
70	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | father |  | sons *= son* |  |  | of the true | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hold together** | participle | this three |  |  | the world |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
| 4 | **crystallize** | past · passive | that union | sons *= son* |  | a precious jewel and a jewel |  | in brightness | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | splendor | a value |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | all things | brightness *not said here* |  |  |  | dim *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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