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title: In the church was the light and the brightness of God--in the monk's… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the church was the light and the brightness of God--in the monk's cell he should find the rest through which the tree of human life might grow on into eternity. Who acts: soil, tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 175

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In the church was the light and the brightness of God--in the monk's cell he should find the rest through which the tree of human life might grow on into eternity.

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**Who acts:** soil, tree · **What happens:** be, find, grow · **To what, where:** light, church, rest

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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 (soil, tree), 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:pg27200:151:175
# text = In the church was the light and the brightness of God--in the monk's cell he should find the rest through which the tree of human life might grow on into eternity.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the light and the brightness of God and the monk's cell |  | the church |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | should | soil | the rest |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic |
| 3 | **grow** | might | the tree of human life |  |  | the rest | on eternity |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Location |

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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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