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title: Summertime without a summer theatre seemed to be only a time that ma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Summertime without a summer theatre seemed to be only a time that made her old; while, on the other hand, a theatrical evening that lasted till midnight was a lengthening of her life. Who acts: Summertime, time, theatrical evening, other hand. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 14

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Summertime without a summer theatre seemed to be only a time that made her old; while, on the other hand, a theatrical evening that lasted till midnight was a lengthening of her life.

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**Who acts:** Summertime, time, theatrical evening, other hand · **What happens:** seem, be, make, last, lengthen · **To what, where:** time, Summertime

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Summertime, time, theatrical evening, other hand), 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:pg27200:139:14
# text = Summertime without a summer theatre seemed to be only a time that made her old; while, on the other hand, a theatrical evening that lasted till midnight was a lengthening of her life.
1	Summertime	summertime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	theatrical	theatrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	till	till	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	lengthening	lengthen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Summertime without a summer theatre |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Summertime without a summer theatre *not said here* | a time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | a time | Summertime |  |  |  | old *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 4 | **last** | past | a theatrical evening |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lengthen** | past · progressive | the other hand |  |  |  |  | of hand's life | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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