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title: Oh, how beautiful it must be, he thought, to go on voyages of discov… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, how beautiful it must be, he thought, to go on voyages of discovery, or to find out how to imitate the wings of birds and then to be able to fly! Who acts: tale, elder. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 10

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Oh, how beautiful it must be, he thought, to go on voyages of discovery, or to find out how to imitate the wings of birds and then to be able to fly!

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**Who acts:** tale, elder · **What happens:** be, think, go, find out, imitate, fly · **To what, where:** voyages, wings, discovery · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale, elder), 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:pg27200:199:10
# text = Oh, how beautiful it must be, he thought, to go on voyages of discovery, or to find out how to imitate the wings of birds and then to be able to fly!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	imitate	imitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | must | tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | elder |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | voyages of discovery |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on voyage=Location |
| 4 | **find out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **imitate** | to-infinitive |  | the wings of birds |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **fly** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **voyage** |  |  | discovery |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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