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title: And there were many songs, and yet even more tears; till at length N… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And there were many songs, and yet even more tears; till at length Night said, "Go to the right, into the dark forest of fir-trees; for I saw Death take that road with your little child." Who acts: many songs, length, Death. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 23

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And there were many songs, and yet even more tears; till at length Night said, "Go to the right, into the dark forest of fir-trees; for I saw Death take that road with your little child."

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**Who acts:** many songs, length, Death · **What happens:** be, say, go, see, take · **To what, where:** dark forest, Death, road · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many songs, length, Death), 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:pg27200:185:23
# text = And there were many songs, and yet even more tears; till at length Night said, "Go to the right, into the dark forest of fir-trees; for I saw Death take that road with your little child."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Night	Night	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
37	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | many songs and more tears |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | length |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | the dark forest of fir trees |  | to the right | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to right=Initial\_Location into forest=Destination |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | past | length | Death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | Death *not said here* | that road |  |  |  | with your little child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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