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title: "The days go on, and the days come nearer and nearer to clearness an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "The days go on, and the days come nearer and nearer to clearness and to joy; and then a day will come when it will be over with me; but not over altogether. Who acts: days, day, whole. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 26

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"The days go on, and the days come nearer and nearer to clearness and to joy; and then a day will come when it will be over with me; but not over altogether.

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**Who acts:** days, day, whole · **What happens:** go on, come, be

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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 (days, day, 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:pg27200:213:26
# text = "The days go on, and the days come nearer and nearer to clearness and to joy; and then a day will come when it will be over with me; but not over altogether.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	clearness	clearness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** *in a quote* | present | the days |  |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the days |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | future | a day |  |  |  | then | with the youngest *= young* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | whole |  |  |  |  | over *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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