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title: Then he unfolded to them both the beauties of Nature, in all her wor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he unfolded to them both the beauties of Nature, in all her works; he pointed out to them how, in the scale of creation, inanimate matter was inferior to animate nature; the plant above the mineral, the animal above the plant, and man above them all. Who acts: smile, inanimate matter, Nature. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 76

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Then he unfolded to them both the beauties of Nature, in all her works; he pointed out to them how, in the scale of creation, inanimate matter was inferior to animate nature; the plant above the mineral, the animal above the plant, and man above them all.

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**Who acts:** smile, inanimate matter, Nature · **What happens:** unfold, point out, be, animate, work · **To what, where:** copies, works, nature

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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 (smile, inanimate matter, Nature), 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:pg27200:7:76
# text = Then he unfolded to them both the beauties of Nature, in all her works; he pointed out to them how, in the scale of creation, inanimate matter was inferior to animate nature; the plant above the mineral, the animal above the plant, and man above them all.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	unfolded	unfold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
6	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc:preconj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	beauties	beauty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Nature	Nature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	inanimate	inanimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	animate	animate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	csubj	_	_
36	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
40	above	above	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	mineral	mineral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
46	above	above	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
52	above	above	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nmod	_	_
54	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	53	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unfold** | past | smile | copies *= copy* |  | Nature's works | then |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **point out** | past | smile |  | copies *= copy* |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | inanimate matter |  |  |  |  | inferior *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **animate** | to-infinitive |  | nature |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nature=Patient |
| 5 | **work** |  | Nature |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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