--- title: And spring came, and summer; and then it was autumn, and then winter… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And spring came, and summer; and then it was autumn, and then winter; and a thousand pictures were reflected in the eye and in the heart of the boy; and the little girl always sang to him, “This you will never forget.” Who acts: spring, hand, little girl, This. 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C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spring, hand, little girl, This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:17:110 # text = And spring came, and summer; and then it was autumn, and then winter; and a thousand pictures were reflected in the eye and in the heart of the boy; and the little girl always sang to him, “This you will never forget.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 16 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 reflected reflect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 40 advmod _ _ 40 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 44 “ " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 nsubj:outer _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 47 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 48 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 49 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | spring | | | | summer | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | hand | autumn and winter | | | then | | tree rules | | 3 | **reflect** | past · passive | | a thousand pictures | | the eye and the heart of the boy | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the little girl | | boy | | | always *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **forget** *in a quote* | future | This | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/109/) - next →: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/111/) - ↑ back to [The Elderbush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/)