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title: But the children of the sun sang in louder strains in praise of the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the children of the sun sang in louder strains in praise of the mind of man, which can span the sea as with a yoke, can level mountains, and fill up valleys. Who acts: children, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 15

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But the children of the sun sang in louder strains in praise of the mind of man, which can span the sea as with a yoke, can level mountains, and fill up valleys.

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**Who acts:** children, man · **What happens:** sing, span, level, fill up, praise, mind · **To what, where:** louder strains, sea, mountains, valleys, mind, man

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, man), 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:pg27200:60:15
# text = But the children of the sun sang in louder strains in praise of the mind of man, which can span the sea as with a yoke, can level mountains, and fill up valleys.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	strains	strain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	span	span	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	level	level	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	fill	fill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the children of the sun |  |  | louder strains in praise of the mind of man |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in strain=Location |
| 2 | **span** | can | man | the sea |  |  |  | as a yoke | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **level** | can |  | mountains |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
| 4 | **fill up** | infinitive |  | valleys |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent valley=Patient |
| 5 | **praise** |  |  | the mind of man |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **mind** |  |  | man |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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