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title: O heavens! 'tis a long time since I have thought on those times. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: O heavens! 'tis a long time since I have thought on those times. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 39

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O heavens! 'tis a long time since I have thought on those times.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** ti, think

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg1597:8:39
# text = O heavens! 'tis a long time since I have thought on those times.
1	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	2	case	_	_
2	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tis	ti	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ti** | present |  |  |  |  | time | of heavens | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | time |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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