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title: Once in every thousand years I shall go and fetch him, when he will… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Once in every thousand years I shall go and fetch him, when he will either be condemned to sink still deeper, or be raised to a happier life in the world beyond the stars." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 263

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Once in every thousand years I shall go and fetch him, when he will either be condemned to sink still deeper, or be raised to a happier life in the world beyond the stars."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, fetch, condemn, sink, raise · **To what, where:** garden, happier life

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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 (I), 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:pg27200:140:263
# text = Once in every thousand years I shall go and fetch him, when he will either be condemned to sink still deeper, or be raised to a happier life in the world beyond the stars."
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc:preconj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fetch** | infinitive | I *not said here* | garden |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **condemn** | future · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sink** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **raise** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  | a happier life in the world |  | beyond the stars | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: to life=Destination beyond star=Initial\_Location |

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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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