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title: During the whole of the following day, while her brothers were absen… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: During the whole of the following day, while her brothers were absent, she sat in solitude, but never before had the time flown so quickly. Who acts: brothers, life. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 73

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During the whole of the following day, while her brothers were absent, she sat in solitude, but never before had the time flown so quickly.

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**Who acts:** brothers, life · **What happens:** follow, be, sit, have, fly · **To what, where:** solitude

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, 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:pg27200:209:73
# text = During the whole of the following day, while her brothers were absent, she sat in solitude, but never before had the time flown so quickly.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	flown	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | life's brothers |  |  |  |  | absent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | past | life |  |  | solitude |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in solitude=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | life *not said here* |  |  |  | time | before *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | participle | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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