--- title: To repeat it all would require years and days; for year by year it i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: To repeat it all would require years and days; for year by year it is telling the old stories, sometimes short ones, sometimes long ones, according to its whim; it tells of old times, of the dark hard times, thus: Who acts: place. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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:pg27200:10:18 # text = To repeat it all would require years and days; for year by year it is telling the old stories, sometimes short ones, sometimes long ones, according to its whim; it tells of old times, of the dark hard times, thus: 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 repeat repeat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 require require VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 24 advmod _ _ 23 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 advmod _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 case _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 whim whim NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 thus thus ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repeat** | to-infinitive | | | | | | thus *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **require** | would | place | | | | year | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | place | the old stories | | | year | short ones *obl*; long ones *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 4 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | place | | | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/19/) - ↑ back to [The Bell-deep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/)