--- title: Every time I thought of this story, it seemed to me more and more ch… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Every time I thought of this story, it seemed to me more and more charming; for it is with stories as it is with many people--they become better as they grow older. Who acts: I, it, story, stories. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Alw --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/2/) [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/) / [What the Old Man Does Is Always Right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/) / 2 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 2 Every time I thought of this story, it seemed to me more and more charming; for it is with stories as it is with many people--they become better as they grow older. **Who acts:** I, it, story, stories, people · **What happens:** think, seem, be, become, grow · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it, story, stories), 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:pg27200:132:2 # text = Every time I thought of this story, it seemed to me more and more charming; for it is with stories as it is with many people--they become better as they grow older. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 16 charming charming NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 32 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I | | | | time | of this story | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **seem** | past | it | | me | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | story | | | | | for stories | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | story | | | | | as many people | tree rules | | 5 | **become** | present | stories | | | | | good *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **grow** | present | people | | | | | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/3/) - ↑ back to [What the Old Man Does Is Always Right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/)