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title: "God grant that we once more may meet In sweet unclouded peace and j… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "God grant that we once more may meet In sweet unclouded peace and joy." Who acts: we. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 48

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"God grant that we once more may meet In sweet unclouded peace and joy."

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** meet, uncloud · **To what, where:** God grant, sweet unclouded peace

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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 (we), 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:pg27200:158:48
# text = "God grant that we once more may meet In sweet unclouded peace and joy."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	In	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	unclouded	uncloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** *in a quote* | may | we | God grant |  | sweet unclouded peace and joy |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **uncloud** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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