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title: You know already that every human being has a life-tree or a life-fl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You know already that every human being has a life-tree or a life-flower, just as may be ordained for him. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 49

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You know already that every human being has a life-tree or a life-flower, just as may be ordained for him.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** know, have, ordain · **To what, where:** life tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg27200:185:49
# text = You know already that every human being has a life-tree or a life-flower, just as may be ordained for him.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	ordained	ordain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | a life tree or a life flower |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 3 | **ordain** | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for flower | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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