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title: What is earthly will pass away and be forgotten, and the Star in the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What is earthly will pass away and be forgotten, and the Star in the vast firmament knows it. Who acts: Star. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 257

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What is earthly will pass away and be forgotten, and the Star in the vast firmament knows it.

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**Who acts:** Star · **What happens:** be, pass away, forget, know · **To what, where:** firmament

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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), 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:pg27200:151:257
# text = What is earthly will pass away and be forgotten, and the Star in the vast firmament knows it.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	csubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	firmament	firmament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | earthly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass away** | future |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present | the Star in the vast firmament | firmament |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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