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title: There have been great changes since we were children together; every… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There have been great changes since we were children together; everything is different, both inwardly and outwardly. Who acts: we, everything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 119

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There have been great changes since we were children together; everything is different, both inwardly and outwardly.

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**Who acts:** we, everything · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** great changes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, everything), 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:pg27200:128:119
# text = There have been great changes since we were children together; everything is different, both inwardly and outwardly.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	since	since	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	inwardly	inwardly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	outwardly	outwardly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  | there |  | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | great changes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | we |  |  |  | since children |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | everything |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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