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title: And the mighty genius of mankind, swifter than a bird and than an ar… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the mighty genius of mankind, swifter than a bird and than an arrow--swifter than anything of earthly origin--carried him out into space, where the heavenly bodies are bound together by the rays that pass from star to star. Who acts: mighty genius, rays. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christ
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 26

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And the mighty genius of mankind, swifter than a bird and than an arrow--swifter than anything of earthly origin--carried him out into space, where the heavenly bodies are bound together by the rays that pass from star to star.

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**Who acts:** mighty genius, rays · **What happens:** carry out, bind, pass · **To what, where:** star, space, heavenly bodies

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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 (mighty genius, rays), 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:pg27200:199:26
# text = And the mighty genius of mankind, swifter than a bird and than an arrow--swifter than anything of earthly origin--carried him out into space, where the heavenly bodies are bound together by the rays that pass from star to star.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	swifter	swifter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	swifter	swifter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
36	together	together	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** | past | the mighty genius of mankind and swifter than a bird and a arrow and swifter than anything | star |  | space |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bind** | present · passive | the rays | the heavenly bodies |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **pass** | present | the rays |  |  | star |  | to star | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from star=Initial\_Location to star=Destination |

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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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