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title: If there were no future life, everything here would be too unequally… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If there were no future life, everything here would be too unequally divided, and God would not be the personification of justice." Who acts: future life, God. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 24

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If there were no future life, everything here would be too unequally divided, and God would not be the personification of justice."

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**Who acts:** future life, God · **What happens:** be, divide, not be · **To what, where:** everything, personification

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (future life, God), 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:pg27200:158:24
# text = If there were no future life, everything here would be too unequally divided, and God would not be the personification of justice."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	unequally	unequally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	personification	personification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | no future life |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **divide** | would · passive |  | everything |  |  |  | unequally *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | would | God | the personification |  |  |  | of justice | tree rules |

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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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