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title: At this moment he was able to do so, for a fire ran in the blood of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At this moment he was able to do so, for a fire ran in the blood of the young sculptor; a change had taken place in his soul; he felt a longing to tear from the old, the accustomed--to forget, if possible, his own individuality; and therefore it was that he followed Angelo. Who acts: feast, change, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 114

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At this moment he was able to do so, for a fire ran in the blood of the young sculptor; a change had taken place in his soul; he felt a longing to tear from the old, the accustomed--to forget, if possible, his own individuality; and therefore it was that he followed Angelo.

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**Who acts:** feast, change, longing · **What happens:** be, do, run, take, feel, tear · **To what, where:** blood, place, soul, longing, old, own individuality

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, change, longing), 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:pg27200:151:114
# text = At this moment he was able to do so, for a fire ran in the blood of the young sculptor; a change had taken place in his soul; he felt a longing to tear from the old, the accustomed--to forget, if possible, his own individuality; and therefore it was that he followed Angelo.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	43	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	individuality	individuality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	61	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
56	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	cop	_	_
59	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
60	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
62	Angelo	Angelo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | feast |  |  |  | moment | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | feast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** | past | feast *not said here* |  |  | the blood of the young sculptor |  | for a fire | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blood=Trajectory |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect | a change | place |  | feast's soul |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in soul=Location |
| 5 | **feel** | past | feast | a longing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tear** | to-infinitive | a longing *not said here* |  |  | the old |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from old=Trajectory |
| 7 | **accustom** | participle | feast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **forget** | to-infinitive |  | feast's own individuality |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | longing |  |  |  |  | follow, therefore *property* | tree rules |

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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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