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title: Yes, yes,' she was in the habit of saying, when I come to die I shal… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, yes,' she was in the habit of saying, when I come to die I shall take a longer journey than I have made my whole life long. Who acts: Moon, habit, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 8

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Yes, yes,' she was in the habit of saying, when I come to die I shall take a longer journey than I have made my whole life long.

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**Who acts:** Moon, habit, I · **What happens:** be, say, come, die, take, make · **To what, where:** habit, longer journey, whole life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, habit, 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:pg27200:101:8
# text = Yes, yes,' she was in the habit of saying, when I come to die I shall take a longer journey than I have made my whole life long.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Moon |  |  | the habit |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the habit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | shall | I | a longer journey |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | present · perfect | I | my whole life |  |  |  | long *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Product |

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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:** «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.

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