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title: Time enough had he too for his reflections; for days and nights pass… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Time enough had he too for his reflections; for days and nights passed on, and nobody came up; and when at last somebody did come, it was only to put some great trunks in a corner, out of the way. Who acts: nobody, somebody, reverie. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 134

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Time enough had he too for his reflections; for days and nights passed on, and nobody came up; and when at last somebody did come, it was only to put some great trunks in a corner, out of the way.

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**Who acts:** nobody, somebody, reverie · **What happens:** have, pass on, come up, come, be · **To what, where:** Humpy Dumpy, days, corner

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody, somebody, reverie), 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:pg1597:10:134
# text = Time enough had he too for his reflections; for days and nights passed on, and nobody came up; and when at last somebody did come, it was only to put some great trunks in a corner, out of the way.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	reflections	reflection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | Humpy Dumpy *= dumpy* |  |  | day; time | for Humpy Dumpy's reflections; enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **pass on** | participle |  | days and nights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come up** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past · do-support | somebody |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | reverie |  |  | a corner |  | out the way; put *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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