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title: What is heavenly will shine brightly through posterity; and when the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What is heavenly will shine brightly through posterity; and when the ages of posterity are past, the Psyche--the soul--will still live on! Who acts: ages, Psyche. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 258

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What is heavenly will shine brightly through posterity; and when the ages of posterity are past, the Psyche--the soul--will still live on!

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**Who acts:** ages, Psyche · **What happens:** be, shine, live on · **To what, where:** posterity

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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 (ages, Psyche), 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:pg27200:151:258
# text = What is heavenly will shine brightly through posterity; and when the ages of posterity are past, the Psyche--the soul--will still live on!
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	shine	shine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
6	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	posterity	posterity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	posterity	posterity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	past	past	ADV	RB	_	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Psyche	Psyche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | heavenly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | future |  |  |  | posterity |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through posterity=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the ages of posterity |  |  |  |  | past *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **live on** | future | the Psyche |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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