--- title: She had time enough, moreover, to think about it; she thought of it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She had time enough, moreover, to think about it; she thought of it while the summer passed away, and the long winter went by, and the summer came again, before she appeared once more. Who acts: flower, summer, long winter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/) / 62 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 62 She had time enough, moreover, to think about it; she thought of it while the summer passed away, and the long winter went by, and the summer came again, before she appeared once more. **Who acts:** flower, summer, long winter · **What happens:** have, think, pass away, go by, come, appear · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (flower, summer, long winter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:177:62 # text = She had time enough, moreover, to think about it; she thought of it while the summer passed away, and the long winter went by, and the summer came again, before she appeared once more. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 enough enough ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 moreover moreover ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 39 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 40 advmod _ _ 40 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | flower | | | | time | moreover *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | flower *not said here* | | | | | about letter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | flower | | | | | of letter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **pass away** | past | the summer | | | | | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **go by** | past | the long winter | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come** | past | the summer | | | | again | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **appear** | past | flower | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/63/) - ↑ back to [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/)