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title: You have given the world all that you had in you; whether it was of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You have given the world all that you had in you; whether it was of much importance is a question that I have not had time to think about. Who acts: You, world, much importance, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 16

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You have given the world all that you had in you; whether it was of much importance is a question that I have not had time to think about.

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**Who acts:** You, world, much importance, I · **What happens:** give, have, be, not have, think about · **To what, where:** world, that, question

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, world, much importance, 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:pg27200:157:16
# text = You have given the world all that you had in you; whether it was of much importance is a question that I have not had time to think about.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect | You | the world |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | you | that |  |  |  | in you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | world |  |  |  |  | of much importance | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | much importance | a question |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **have** | present · perfect | I | a question |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 6 | **think about** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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