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title: Poor Kaela! our life was but as a meeting by the way-side; in yonder… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Kaela! our life was but as a meeting by the way-side; in yonder world, where we shall know each other from a union of mind, we shall be but mere acquaintances." Who acts: Poor Kaela, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 129

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Poor Kaela! our life was but as a meeting by the way-side; in yonder world, where we shall know each other from a union of mind, we shall be but mere acquaintances."

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**Who acts:** Poor Kaela, we · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** world, each, union

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Kaela, 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:pg27200:7:129
# text = Poor Kaela! our life was but as a meeting by the way-side; in yonder world, where we shall know each other from a union of mind, we shall be but mere acquaintances."
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	24	obj	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Poor Kaela |  |  | world |  | as a meeting but mere acquaintances; by the way side | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | shall | we | each |  | a union of mind |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |

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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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