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title: The day was so warm and beautiful that one might well have said: "Go… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The day was so warm and beautiful that one might well have said: "God's kindness to us men is beyond all limits." Who acts: day, kindness. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 6

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The day was so warm and beautiful that one might well have said: "God's kindness to us men is beyond all limits."

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**Who acts:** day, kindness · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, kindness), 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:pg27200:2:6
# text = The day was so warm and beautiful that one might well have said: "God's kindness to us men is beyond all limits."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the day |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the day *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | might · perfect · passive |  | one |  |  |  | well *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | God's kindness to us and men |  |  |  |  | beyond all limits | tree rules |

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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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