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title: The star had seen the course of that life on earth, and knew of the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The star had seen the course of that life on earth, and knew of the man's trials, of his weakness--in fact, that he had been but human. Who acts: star, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 254

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The star had seen the course of that life on earth, and knew of the man's trials, of his weakness--in fact, that he had been but human.

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**Who acts:** star, man · **What happens:** see, know, try · **To what, where:** course, fact

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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 (star, man), 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:pg27200:151:254
# text = The star had seen the course of that life on earth, and knew of the man's trials, of his weakness--in fact, that he had been but human.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	trials	trial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · perfect | the star | the course of that life on earth |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer course=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | past | the star *not said here* |  |  | fact |  | of the man's trials; of earth's weakness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of trial=Stimulus |
| 3 | **try** |  | the man |  |  |  |  |  | nom trial «act 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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