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title: "What is near, what is far, when thou art lifted by the mighty geniu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "What is near, what is far, when thou art lifted by the mighty genius of mind?" Who acts: mighty genius. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 29

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"What is near, what is far, when thou art lifted by the mighty genius of mind?"

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**Who acts:** mighty genius · **What happens:** be, lift · **To what, where:** thou

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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), 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:pg27200:199:29
# text = "What is near, what is far, when thou art lifted by the mighty genius of mind?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lift** *in a quote* | present · passive | the mighty genius of mind | thou |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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