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title: The secret powers of nature are generally discovered in solitude, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The secret powers of nature are generally discovered in solitude, and did he not soon expect to find out the art of making the greatest of all good things--the art of making gold? Who acts: shipbuilder, art. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the W
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 89

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The secret powers of nature are generally discovered in solitude, and did he not soon expect to find out the art of making the greatest of all good things--the art of making gold?

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**Who acts:** shipbuilder, art · **What happens:** discover, not expect, find out, make · **To what, where:** secret powers, solitude, art, greatest, gold

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shipbuilder, art), 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:pg27200:212:89
# text = The secret powers of nature are generally discovered in solitude, and did he not soon expect to find out the art of making the greatest of all good things--the art of making gold?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | present · passive |  | the secret powers of nature |  | solitude |  | generally *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **expect** | past · do-support | shipbuilder |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **find out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | shipbuilder *not said here* | the art |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | the art *not said here* | the greatest |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset great=Product |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | the art *not said here* | gold |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Product |

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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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