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title: He now had plenty of time to reflect on the difference of fortune on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He now had plenty of time to reflect on the difference of fortune on earth, and to wonder why this fate had been allotted to him; yet he felt sure that all would be made clear in the next life, the existence that awaits us when this life is over. Who acts: Jurgen, existence, life. A sentence of «Fai
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 44

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He now had plenty of time to reflect on the difference of fortune on earth, and to wonder why this fate had been allotted to him; yet he felt sure that all would be made clear in the next life, the existence that awaits us when this life is over.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, existence, life · **What happens:** have, reflect, wonder, allot, feel, make · **To what, where:** plenty, fate, Jurgen, all, next life, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, existence, 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:pg27200:161:44
# text = He now had plenty of time to reflect on the difference of fortune on earth, and to wonder why this fate had been allotted to him; yet he felt sure that all would be made clear in the next life, the existence that awaits us when this life is over.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	reflect	reflect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	allotted	allot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
38	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	awaits	await	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
50	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
52	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	over	over	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Jurgen | plenty of time |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 2 | **reflect** | to-infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the difference of fortune on earth | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on difference=Topic |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **allot** | past · perfect · passive |  | this fate | Jurgen |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal |
| 5 | **feel** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** | would · passive |  | all |  | the next life and the existence |  | clear *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 7 | **await** | present | the existence | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | present | this life |  |  |  |  | over *property* | 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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