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title: Time goes by when one has something to do; and it goes by, too, when… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Time goes by when one has something to do; and it goes by, too, when one has nothing to do. Who acts: Time, one, hand. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 36

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Time goes by when one has something to do; and it goes by, too, when one has nothing to do.

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**Who acts:** Time, one, hand · **What happens:** go, have, do, go by · **To what, where:** something, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Time, one, 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:pg27200:147:36
# text = Time goes by when one has something to do; and it goes by, too, when one has nothing to do.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Time |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | one | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go by** | present | hand |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | one | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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