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title: But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immort… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves. Who acts: daughters. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 43

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But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.

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**Who acts:** daughters · **What happens:** not possess, procure · **To what, where:** immortal soul, one

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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:pg27200:78:43
# text = But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	procure	procure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **possess** | present · do-support | the daughters of the air | a immortal soul |  |  |  | by daughters's good deeds | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot soul=Theme |
| 2 | **procure** | infinitive | the daughters of the air *not said here* | one |  |  |  | for daughters *= daughter* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for themselves=Beneficiary |

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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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