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title: Yes, this world was a dream, and the dream lasts for hours, and may… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, this world was a dream, and the dream lasts for hours, and may return for hours; but convent life is a life of years--long years, and many years. Who acts: world, dream, convent life. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 182

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Yes, this world was a dream, and the dream lasts for hours, and may return for hours; but convent life is a life of years--long years, and many years.

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**Who acts:** world, dream, convent life · **What happens:** be, last, return · **To what, where:** dream, life

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, dream, convent life), 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:pg27200:151:182
# text = Yes, this world was a dream, and the dream lasts for hours, and may return for hours; but convent life is a life of years--long years, and many years.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this world | a dream but a life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **last** | present | the dream |  |  |  | hour |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | may | the dream *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | convent life | a life |  |  | year |  | 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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