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title: He felt this life in him, and it was as if he heard the sound of dea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He felt this life in him, and it was as if he heard the sound of dear, well-known melodies, as if the breezes of summer floated around him; and over his couch shone a ray of brightness, as if it were shining through the covering of his snow-roof. Who acts: soul, life, breezes, summer. A sentence of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 16

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He felt this life in him, and it was as if he heard the sound of dear, well-known melodies, as if the breezes of summer floated around him; and over his couch shone a ray of brightness, as if it were shining through the covering of his snow-roof.

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**Who acts:** soul, life, breezes, summer · **What happens:** feel, be, know, float, shine, breeze · **To what, where:** life, ray, couch, covering, brightness

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul, life, breezes, summer), 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:pg27200:205:16
# text = He felt this life in him, and it was as if he heard the sound of dear, well-known melodies, as if the breezes of summer floated around him; and over his couch shone a ray of brightness, as if it were shining through the covering of his snow-roof.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
32	around	around	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
39	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
50	through	through	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
55	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | soul | this life |  |  |  | in eye | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent life=Theme in he=Location |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | life |  |  |  |  | hear *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **float** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | the breezes of summer |  |  |  |  | around soul | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Trajectory |
| 5 | **shine** | past | life *not said here* | a ray of brightness |  | soul's couch |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ray=Theme |
| 6 | **shine** | past · progressive | life |  |  | the covering of soul's snow roof |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through covering=Location |
| 7 | **breeze** |  | summer |  |  |  |  |  | nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **ray** |  |  | brightness |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon 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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