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title: Now, you see, this is a little history which will never end; as long… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, you see, this is a little history which will never end; as long as the world exists, there will always be men like these five brothers. Who acts: you, this, little history, world. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 117

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Now, you see, this is a little history which will never end; as long as the world exists, there will always be men like these five brothers.

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**Who acts:** you, this, little history, world, men · **What happens:** see, be, not end, exist · **To what, where:** little history

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, little history, world), 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:pg27200:177:117
# text = Now, you see, this is a little history which will never end; as long as the world exists, there will always be men like these five brothers.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
30	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  | now | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | a little history |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **end** | future | a little history |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **exist** | present | the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | future | men like this five brothers |  |  | there |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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