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title: The dumb creature might demand a future life also, and declare the l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The dumb creature might demand a future life also, and declare the law unjust that excludes it from the advantages of the higher creation." Who acts: dumb creature, law. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 27

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The dumb creature might demand a future life also, and declare the law unjust that excludes it from the advantages of the higher creation."

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**Who acts:** dumb creature, law · **What happens:** demand, declare, exclude · **To what, where:** future life, law, life, advantages

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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 (dumb creature, law), 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:pg27200:158:27
# text = The dumb creature might demand a future life also, and declare the law unjust that excludes it from the advantages of the higher creation."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	unjust	unjust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	excludes	exclude	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	advantages	advantage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | might | the dumb creature | a future life |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Precondition |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive | the dumb creature *not said here* | the law |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Attribute |
| 3 | **exclude** | present | the law | life |  | the advantages of the higher creation |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary from advantage=Eventuality |

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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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