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title: The story is very closely akin to reality; but still it has its harm… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The story is very closely akin to reality; but still it has its harmonious explanation here on earth, while reality often points beyond the confines of life to the regions of eternity. Who acts: story, reality. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 3

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The story is very closely akin to reality; but still it has its harmonious explanation here on earth, while reality often points beyond the confines of life to the regions of eternity.

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**Who acts:** story, reality · **What happens:** be, have, point, explain · **To what, where:** harmonious explanation, regions

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, reality), 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:pg27200:190:3
# text = The story is very closely akin to reality; but still it has its harmonious explanation here on earth, while reality often points beyond the confines of life to the regions of eternity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	akin	akin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	harmonious	harmonious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	confines	confines	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the story |  |  |  |  | to reality; akin, closely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | reality | reality's harmonious explanation |  | here | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Patient |
| 3 | **point** | present | reality |  | the regions of eternity |  |  | beyond the confines of life; often *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to region=Recipient |
| 4 | **explain** |  | reality |  |  |  |  |  | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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