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title: The magic of form had enchanted him; he had looked at the casket wit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The magic of form had enchanted him; he had looked at the casket without caring to inquire what it contained, and that omission often brings the greatest unhappiness into married life. Who acts: proverb, magic, omission. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beaut
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 93

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The magic of form had enchanted him; he had looked at the casket without caring to inquire what it contained, and that omission often brings the greatest unhappiness into married life.

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**Who acts:** proverb, magic, omission · **What happens:** enchant, look, care, inquire, contain, bring · **To what, where:** magic, greatest unhappiness, married life

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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 (proverb, magic, omission), 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:pg27200:7:93
# text = The magic of form had enchanted him; he had looked at the casket without caring to inquire what it contained, and that omission often brings the greatest unhappiness into married life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	omission	omission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	often	often	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	unhappiness	unhappiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | past · perfect · passive |  | the magic of form |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result |
| 2 | **look** | past · perfect | proverb |  |  |  |  | at the casket | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at casket=Theme |
| 3 | **care** | gerund | proverb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | proverb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 5 | **contain** | past | magic |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **bring** | present | that omission | the greatest unhappiness |  | married life |  | often *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent unhappiness=Theme into life=Destination |

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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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