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title: Thank God, that I stand so near and can at least see all the splendo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Thank God, that I stand so near and can at least see all the splendour." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 15

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Thank God, that I stand so near and can at least see all the splendour."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** thank, stand, see · **To what, where:** God, splendour, least

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:20:15
# text = Thank God, that I stand so near and can at least see all the splendour."
1	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	near	near	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obl	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present |  |  | God |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | present | I |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | can | I *not said here* | all splendour |  | least |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splendour=Stimulus |

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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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