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title: Then the sunbeam spoke of the boundless love of God, as seen in crea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the sunbeam spoke of the boundless love of God, as seen in creation, and over all that lives, and of the equal distribution of His gifts, both in time and in eternity. Who acts: sunbeam. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 45

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Then the sunbeam spoke of the boundless love of God, as seen in creation, and over all that lives, and of the equal distribution of His gifts, both in time and in eternity.

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**Who acts:** sunbeam · **What happens:** speak, see, love, distribute, gift · **To what, where:** lives, creation, God, gifts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunbeam), 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:pg27200:6:45
# text = Then the sunbeam spoke of the boundless love of God, as seen in creation, and over all that lives, and of the equal distribution of His gifts, both in time and in eternity.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	distribution	distribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc:preconj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the sunbeam |  |  | all lives | then | of the boundless love of God; of the equal distribution of sunbeam's gifts | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | participle | the sunbeam *not said here* |  |  | creation |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **love** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **distribute** |  |  | sunbeam's gifts |  |  |  |  | nom distribution «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **gift** |  | sunbeam |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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