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title: After we have striven for three hundred years to all the good in our… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: After we have striven for three hundred years to all the good in our power, we receive an immortal soul and take part in the happiness of mankind. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 46

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After we have striven for three hundred years to all the good in our power, we receive an immortal soul and take part in the happiness of mankind.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** strive, receive, take · **To what, where:** we, immortal soul, part, happiness

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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 (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:pg27200:78:46
# text = After we have striven for three hundred years to all the good in our power, we receive an immortal soul and take part in the happiness of mankind.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	striven	strive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	receive	receive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strive** | present · perfect · passive |  | we |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | present | we | a immortal soul |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | we *not said here* | part |  | the happiness of mankind |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in happiness=Location |

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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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