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title: But Summer and his bosom-wife saw it with different eyes, to them th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But Summer and his bosom-wife saw it with different eyes, to them the altar-table was covered with the offerings of nature. Who acts: Summer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 106

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But Summer and his bosom-wife saw it with different eyes, to them the altar-table was covered with the offerings of nature.

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**Who acts:** Summer · **What happens:** see, cover, offer · **To what, where:** sunshine, altar table, eyes, nature

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:214:106
# text = But Summer and his bosom-wife saw it with different eyes, to them the altar-table was covered with the offerings of nature.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Summer and sun's bosom wife | sunshine |  |  |  | with different eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the altar table | eyes *= eye* |  |  | with the offerings of nature | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with offering=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** |  |  | nature |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication 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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