---
title: But now 'tis past, 'tis past!” — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But now 'tis past, 'tis past!” A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/203/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/) / 203

# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 203

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But now 'tis past, 'tis past!”

<!-- .vabout -->
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg1597:10:203
# text = But now 'tis past, 'tis past!”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/202/)
- next →: [sentence 204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/204/)
- ↑ back to [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/)