--- title: But the ruins stood unchanged, as they will stand when centuries sha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But the ruins stood unchanged, as they will stand when centuries shall have gone by, and when none shall know of the momentary applause and of the triumph of the fair songstress; when all will be forgotten and gone, and even for me this hour will be but a dream of the past." Who acts: ruins, centuri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/102/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Eleventh Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/102/) / 20 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 20 But the ruins stood unchanged, as they will stand when centuries shall have gone by, and when none shall know of the momentary applause and of the triumph of the fair songstress; when all will be forgotten and gone, and even for me this hour will be but a dream of the past." **Who acts:** ruins, centuries, none, fair songstress · **What happens:** stand, go by, know, forget, go, be · **To what, where:** all, dream This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ruins, centuries, none, fair songstress), 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:pg27200:102:20 # text = But the ruins stood unchanged, as they will stand when centuries shall have gone by, and when none shall know of the momentary applause and of the triumph of the fair songstress; when all will be forgotten and gone, and even for me this hour will be but a dream of the past." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 unchanged unchanged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 12 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux _ _ 15 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 22 nsubj _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 momentary momentary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 applause applause NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 triumph triumph NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 songstress songstress NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 even even ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 48 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 det _ _ 49 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 50 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 51 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 54 cop _ _ 52 but but CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the ruins | | | | hour | for me; unchanged *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for i=Attribute | | 2 | **stand** | future | ruins *= ruin* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go by** | shall · perfect | centuries | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **know** | shall | none | | | | | of the momentary applause and the triumph of the fair songstress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of applause=Stimulus | | 5 | **forget** | future · passive | | all | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | participle | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | future | | a dream | | | | of the past | tree rules | | 8 | **triumph** | | the fair songstress | | | | | | nom triumph «event intransitive»: of=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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/102/19/) - next →: [Twelfth Evening, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/103/1/) - ↑ back to [Eleventh Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/102/)