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title: He told them that God, when He made man out of the dust of the earth… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He told them that God, when He made man out of the dust of the earth, touched His work five times, leaving five intense feelings, which we call the five senses. Who acts: father, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 61

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He told them that God, when He made man out of the dust of the earth, touched His work five times, leaving five intense feelings, which we call the five senses.

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**Who acts:** father, we · **What happens:** tell, make, touch, leave, call, work · **To what, where:** God, man, dust, work, five intense feelings · **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, we), 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:pg27200:143:61
# text = He told them that God, when He made man out of the dust of the earth, touched His work five times, leaving five intense feelings, which we call the five senses.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
26	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | father |  | God |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient god=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | father | man |  | the dust of the earth |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Product |
| 3 | **touch** | past |  | father's work |  |  | time |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund |  | five intense feelings |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | present | we | five intense feelings |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme sens=Result |
| 6 | **work** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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