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title: The winter passed away, and the spring and the summer passed away, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The winter passed away, and the spring and the summer passed away, and the autumn came again, with the damp, cold sea-fog. Who acts: winter, spring, autumn. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 87

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The winter passed away, and the spring and the summer passed away, and the autumn came again, with the damp, cold sea-fog.

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**Who acts:** winter, spring, autumn · **What happens:** pass away, come

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winter, spring, autumn), 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:pg27200:149:87
# text = The winter passed away, and the spring and the summer passed away, and the autumn came again, with the damp, cold sea-fog.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
23	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass away** | past | the winter |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pass away** | past | the spring and the summer |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the autumn |  |  |  | again | with the damp cold sea fog | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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