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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 59

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This information would have been beyond the perception of other children; but these children understood, and others will learn to comprehend its meaning after a time.

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**Who acts:** information, children, others · **What happens:** be, understand, learn, comprehend, mean · **To what, where:** meaning

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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 (information, children, others), 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:pg27200:143:59
# text = This information would have been beyond the perception of other children; but these children understood, and others will learn to comprehend its meaning after a time.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
6	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	perception	perception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | this information |  |  |  |  | beyond the perception; of other children | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | past | this children |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **learn** | future | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **comprehend** | to-infinitive | others *not said here* | information's meaning |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus |
| 5 | **mean** |  | information |  |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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