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title: No power on earth must equal mine, far less exceed it." — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No power on earth must equal mine, far less exceed it." Who acts: power. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 10

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No power on earth must equal mine, far less exceed it."

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**Who acts:** power · **What happens:** equal, exceed · **To what, where:** mine, earth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power), 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:pg27200:207:10
# text = No power on earth must equal mine, far less exceed it."
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	equal	equal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	exceed	exceed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **equal** | must | no power on earth | mine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exceed** | infinitive |  | earth |  |  |  | less *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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