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title: Here in dark night sits the man who measured the mountains in the mo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here in dark night sits the man who measured the mountains in the moon; he who forced his way out into the endless space, among stars and planets; he, the mighty man who understood the spirit of nature, and felt the earth moving beneath his feet--Galileo. Who acts: man, mighty man, earth. A sentence
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 39

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Here in dark night sits the man who measured the mountains in the moon; he who forced his way out into the endless space, among stars and planets; he, the mighty man who understood the spirit of nature, and felt the earth moving beneath his feet--Galileo.

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**Who acts:** man, mighty man, earth · **What happens:** sit, measure, force out, man, understand, feel · **To what, where:** man, mountains, moon, way, endless space, spirit

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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 (man, mighty man, earth), 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:pg27200:190:39
# text = Here in dark night sits the man who measured the mountains in the moon; he who forced his way out into the endless space, among stars and planets; he, the mighty man who understood the spirit of nature, and felt the earth moving beneath his feet--Galileo.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	appos	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	acl	_	_
49	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	Galileo	Galileo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present |  | the man |  | here | night |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** | past | the man | the mountains |  | the moon |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme mountain=Value |
| 3 | **force out** | past | man | man's way |  | the endless space |  | out *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 4 | **man** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **understand** | past | the mighty man | the spirit of nature |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus |
| 6 | **feel** | past |  | the earth and Galileo |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme |
| 7 | **move** | gerund | the earth and Galileo *not said here* |  |  | man's feet |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme beneath foot=Trajectory |

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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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