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title: And this was the end of a life whose infancy was to have been surrou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And this was the end of a life whose infancy was to have been surrounded with wealth and splendour had his parents lived! Who acts: this, end, parents. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 75

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And this was the end of a life whose infancy was to have been surrounded with wealth and splendour had his parents lived!

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**Who acts:** this, end, parents · **What happens:** be, surround, have, live · **To what, where:** end, infancy

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, end, parents), 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:pg27200:162:75
# text = And this was the end of a life whose infancy was to have been surrounded with wealth and splendour had his parents lived!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	infancy	infancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | the end |  |  |  | of a life | tree rules |
| 2 | **surround** | past · perfect · passive | the end *not said here* | infancy |  |  |  | with wealth and splendour | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with wealth=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the end |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past | end's parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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