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title: "How lovely to my wondering eyes Mont Blanc's fair summits gently ri… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "How lovely to my wondering eyes Mont Blanc's fair summits gently rise; 'Tis sweet to breathe the mountain air,-- If you have gold enough to spare." Who acts: fair summits, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 15

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"How lovely to my wondering eyes Mont Blanc's fair summits gently rise; 'Tis sweet to breathe the mountain air,-- If you have gold enough to spare."

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**Who acts:** fair summits, you · **What happens:** wonder, rise, breathe, have, spare · **To what, where:** wondering eyes, mountain air, gold

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair summits, you), 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:pg27200:45:15
# text = "How lovely to my wondering eyes Mont Blanc's fair summits gently rise; 'Tis sweet to breathe the mountain air,-- If you have gold enough to spare."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	Mont	Mont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Blanc	Blanc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **rise** *in a quote* | present | Mont's fair summits | my wondering eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 3 | **breathe** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the mountain air |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | gold |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient |
| 5 | **spare** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: 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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