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title: The time will not seem to you more than a hundred hours, yet even th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The time will not seem to you more than a hundred hours, yet even that is a long time for temptation and resistance. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 202

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The time will not seem to you more than a hundred hours, yet even that is a long time for temptation and resistance.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** not seem, be · **To what, where:** you, long time

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg27200:140:202
# text = The time will not seem to you more than a hundred hours, yet even that is a long time for temptation and resistance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	seem	seem	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	TO	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	temptation	temptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **seem** | future |  |  | you |  | hour; time |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | a long time |  |  |  | for temptation and resistance | 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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