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title: The powers of evil carry on their game both around us and within us. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The powers of evil carry on their game both around us and within us. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 6

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The powers of evil carry on their game both around us and within us.

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:64:6
# text = The powers of evil carry on their game both around us and within us.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	carry	carry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	both	both	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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