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title: Now the learned men had spoken also of love between this one and tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the learned men had spoken also of love between this one and that one; of the difference of the love which we have for our neighbor, to the love that exists between parents and children; of the love of the plant for the light, and how the germ springs forth when the sunbeam kisses the ground. Wh
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 90

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Now the learned men had spoken also of love between this one and that one; of the difference of the love which we have for our neighbor, to the love that exists between parents and children; of the love of the plant for the light, and how the germ springs forth when the sunbeam kisses the ground.

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**Who acts:** learned men, we, love, sunbeam · **What happens:** learn, speak, have, exist, kiss, love · **To what, where:** difference, ground, plant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (learned men, we, love, sunbeam), 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:pg27200:84:90
# text = Now the learned men had spoken also of love between this one and that one; of the difference of the love which we have for our neighbor, to the love that exists between parents and children; of the love of the plant for the light, and how the germ springs forth when the sunbeam kisses the ground.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	between	between	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
51	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	55	advmod	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
55	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
56	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	59	mark	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
59	kisses	kiss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | the learned men |  |  |  | now | of love between this one | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | we | the difference of the love |  |  |  | for our neighbor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 4 | **exist** | present | the love |  |  |  |  | between parents and children | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between parent=Location |
| 5 | **kiss** | present | the sunbeam | the ground |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **love** |  |  | the plant for the light |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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