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title: Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, live… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. Who acts: Human beings, soul. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 56

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Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust.

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**Who acts:** Human beings, soul · **What happens:** have, live, turn · **To what, where:** soul, body, dust

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Human beings, soul), 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:pg27200:76:56
# text = Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust.
1	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Human beings | a soul |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | present | a soul |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | present | a soul *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | present · perfect · passive |  | the body |  | dust |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to dust=Trajectory |

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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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