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title: "Thou art a master like those masters among the ancient Greeks," exc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Thou art a master like those masters among the ancient Greeks," exclaimed his delighted friends; "soon shall the whole world admire thy Psyche." Who acts: delighted friends, whole world. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 65

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"Thou art a master like those masters among the ancient Greeks," exclaimed his delighted friends; "soon shall the whole world admire thy Psyche."

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**Who acts:** delighted friends, whole world · **What happens:** exclaim, admire · **To what, where:** ancient Greeks, Psyche · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (delighted friends, whole world), 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:pg27200:151:65
# text = "Thou art a master like those masters among the ancient Greeks," exclaimed his delighted friends; "soon shall the whole world admire thy Psyche."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	Psyche	Psyche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | master's delighted friends | the ancient Greeks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent greek=Topic |
| 2 | **admire** *in a quote* | shall | the whole world | thy Psyche |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer psyche=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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