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title: "That is not likely to happen yet," said the wind; "and I will also… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "That is not likely to happen yet," said the wind; "and I will also blow a memory into you, so that should you receive other similar presents your old age will pass very pleasantly." Who acts: That, wind, great gift, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 45

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"That is not likely to happen yet," said the wind; "and I will also blow a memory into you, so that should you receive other similar presents your old age will pass very pleasantly."

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**Who acts:** That, wind, great gift, you, old age · **What happens:** not be, happen, say, blow, receive, pass · **To what, where:** memory, other similar presents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, wind, great gift, you), 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:pg27200:133:45
# text = "That is not likely to happen yet," said the wind; "and I will also blow a memory into you, so that should you receive other similar presents your old age will pass very pleasantly."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	30	mark	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | That *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **blow** *in a quote* | future | a great gift *= gift* | a memory |  |  |  | into you | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent memory=Material into you=Product |
| 5 | **receive** *in a quote* | should | you | other similar presents |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
| 6 | **pass** *in a quote* | future | your old age | other similar presents *not said here* |  |  |  | pleasantly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme present=Trajectory |

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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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