--- title: Heaven is as boundless as the love of our Creator; the dumb animal i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Heaven is as boundless as the love of our Creator; the dumb animal is also His creature, and I firmly believe that no life will be lost, but each will receive as much happiness as he can enjoy, which will be sufficient for him." Who acts: Heaven, dumb animal, I, each. 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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 (Heaven, dumb animal, I, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:158:29 # text = Heaven is as boundless as the love of our Creator; the dumb animal is also His creature, and I firmly believe that no life will be lost, but each will receive as much happiness as he can enjoy, which will be sufficient for him." 1 Heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 as as ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 boundless boundless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 Creator creator NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 dumb dumb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 also also ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 firmly firmly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 35 as as ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 cop _ _ 46 sufficient sufficient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Heaven | | | | | as the love of our Creator; boundless *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the dumb animal | animal's creature | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **believe** | present | I | | | | | firmly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **lose** | future · passive | | no life | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **receive** | future | each | much happiness | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme | | 6 | **enjoy** | can | animal | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** | future | | | | | | for animal; sufficient *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **love** | | | our Creator | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/30/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/)