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title: What was bitter has passed away, and the whole is much more comforta… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What was bitter has passed away, and the whole is much more comfortable. Who acts: whole. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 25

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What was bitter has passed away, and the whole is much more comfortable.

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**Who acts:** whole · **What happens:** be, pass away

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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 (whole), 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:pg27200:213:25
# text = What was bitter has passed away, and the whole is much more comfortable.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | bitter *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass away** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the whole |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |

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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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