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title: "A short time ago"--the Star's "short time ago" is called among men… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "A short time ago"--the Star's "short time ago" is called among men "centuries ago"--"my rays followed a young artist. Who acts: rays, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 4

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"A short time ago"--the Star's "short time ago" is called among men "centuries ago"--"my rays followed a young artist.

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**Who acts:** rays, my · **What happens:** call, follow, ray · **To what, where:** Star, young artist · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rays, my), 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:pg27200:151:4
# text = "A short time ago"--the Star's "short time ago" is called among men "centuries ago"--"my rays followed a young artist.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the Star |  |  | time | among men; ago *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** *in a quote* | past | my rays | a young artist |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent artist=Theme |
| 3 | **ray** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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