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title: It seems as if the one half, the father, had altered, and had receiv… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It seems as if the one half, the father, had altered, and had received a better temper and a more affectionate helpmate--so young and good, and yet the same, only more gentle and good through the course of time. Who acts: It, one half. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 24

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It seems as if the one half, the father, had altered, and had received a better temper and a more affectionate helpmate--so young and good, and yet the same, only more gentle and good through the course of time.

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**Who acts:** It, one half · **What happens:** seem, alter, receive · **To what, where:** better temper

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, one half), 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:pg27200:213:24
# text = It seems as if the one half, the father, had altered, and had received a better temper and a more affectionate helpmate--so young and good, and yet the same, only more gentle and good through the course of time.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	helpmate	helpmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	conj	_	_
39	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
42	through	through	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **alter** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the one half and the father |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **receive** | past · perfect |  | a better temper and a affectionate helpmate |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=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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