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title: But the whole now passes before me again in thought, and everything… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the whole now passes before me again in thought, and everything that I have lived to see; and these are the old thoughts, with what they may bring with them. Who acts: whole, these, thoughts. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and th
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 79

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But the whole now passes before me again in thought, and everything that I have lived to see; and these are the old thoughts, with what they may bring with them.

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**Who acts:** whole, these, thoughts · **What happens:** pass, live, see, be, bring · **To what, where:** thought, old thoughts

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole, these, thoughts), 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:pg1597:19:79
# text = But the whole now passes before me again in thought, and everything that I have lived to see; and these are the old thoughts, with what they may bring with them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | the whole |  |  | thought | before me; now; again |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before i=Location |
| 2 | **live** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | these | the old thoughts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | may | thoughts *= thought* | the old thoughts |  |  |  | with legs *= leg* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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