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title: It is true enough that for days and years the man had not thought of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is true enough that for days and years the man had not thought of it, had not expected it to come and knock; and if he had expected it, it would certainly not have come; for without there was war, and within was the care and sorrow that war brings with it. Who acts: door, days, care. A sentence o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 4

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It is true enough that for days and years the man had not thought of it, had not expected it to come and knock; and if he had expected it, it would certainly not have come; for without there was war, and within was the care and sorrow that war brings with it.

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**Who acts:** door, days, care · **What happens:** be, not think, not expect, come, knock, expect · **To what, where:** man, door, war

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, days, care), 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:pg27200:211:4
# text = It is true enough that for days and years the man had not thought of it, had not expected it to come and knock; and if he had expected it, it would certainly not have come; for without there was war, and within was the care and sorrow that war brings with it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
36	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux	_	_
39	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
41	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	44	expl	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	within	within	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
55	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | door |  |  |  | day | enough, true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | days and years *not said here* | the man |  |  |  | of door | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **expect** | past · perfect |  | door |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **knock** | infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **expect** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme it=Eventuality |
| 7 | **not** **come** | would · perfect | door |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | past | door *not said here* | war |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within the care and sorrow | tree rules |
| 10 | **bring** | present | the care and sorrow |  |  |  |  | with door | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

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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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