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title: The autumn has much to tell of the wild chase, of the leaves of the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The autumn has much to tell of the wild chase, of the leaves of the trees, and of the races of men that are passing away together. Who acts: autumn, men. 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, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 44

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The autumn has much to tell of the wild chase, of the leaves of the trees, and of the races of men that are passing away together.

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**Who acts:** autumn, men · **What happens:** have, tell, pass away, race · **To what, where:** much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (autumn, men), 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:pg27200:211:44
# text = The autumn has much to tell of the wild chase, of the leaves of the trees, and of the races of men that are passing away together.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the autumn | much |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of the wild chase; of the leaves of the trees | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass away** | present · progressive | men |  |  |  |  | away, together *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **race** |  | men |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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