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title: The space between the heavenly bodies is, to thought, no farther tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The space between the heavenly bodies is, to thought, no farther than the distance which we may have to walk from one friend's house to another in the same town; yet this electric shock obliges us to use our bodies here below, unless, like the watchman, we have on the goloshes of Fortune. Who acts: 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 58

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The space between the heavenly bodies is, to thought, no farther than the distance which we may have to walk from one friend's house to another in the same town; yet this electric shock obliges us to use our bodies here below, unless, like the watchman, we have on the goloshes of Fortune.

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**Who acts:** space, distance, electric shock, we · **What happens:** be, have, walk, oblige, use · **To what, where:** house, us, bodies, goloshes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (space, distance, electric shock, we), 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:pg27200:42:58
# text = The space between the heavenly bodies is, to thought, no farther than the distance which we may have to walk from one friend's house to another in the same town; yet this electric shock obliges us to use our bodies here below, unless, like the watchman, we have on the goloshes of Fortune.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	13	discourse	_	_
13	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
37	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	obliges	oblige	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
40	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
43	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
46	below	below	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
48	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
54	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the space between the heavenly bodies |  |  |  |  | to thought; far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | may | the distance |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | the distance *not said here* |  |  | one friend's house |  | to another; in the same town | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent from house=Initial\_Location to another=Destination in town=Trajectory |
| 4 | **oblige** | present | this electric shock | us |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **use** | to-infinitive | this electric shock *not said here* | our bodies |  | here |  | below *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 6 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we |  |  | the goloshes of Fortune |  | like the watchman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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