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title: May no cloud separate the poet from the rose! — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: May no cloud separate the poet from the rose! Who acts: cloud. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 17

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May no cloud separate the poet from the rose!

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**Who acts:** cloud · **What happens:** separate · **To what, where:** poet

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud), 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:pg27200:97:17
# text = May no cloud separate the poet from the rose!
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	separate	separate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | present | no cloud | the poet |  |  |  | from the rose | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent poet=Patient from rose=Co-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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