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title: Do you remember how we came as children to this land of the north; w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you remember how we came as children to this land of the north; we brought with us flowers and bright sunshine, and green to the forests, but the wind has been rough with them, and they are now become dark and brown, like the trees of the south, but they do not, like them, bear golden fruit." Who
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 116

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Do you remember how we came as children to this land of the north; we brought with us flowers and bright sunshine, and green to the forests, but the wind has been rough with them, and they are now become dark and brown, like the trees of the south, but they do not, like them, bear golden fruit."

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**Who acts:** you, we, wind, flowers · **What happens:** remember, come, bring, be, become, not do · **To what, where:** land, flowers, golden fruit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, wind, flowers), 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:pg27200:214:116
# text = Do you remember how we came as children to this land of the north; we brought with us flowers and bright sunshine, and green to the forests, but the wind has been rough with them, and they are now become dark and brown, like the trees of the south, but they do not, like them, bear golden fruit."
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
36	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
43	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
44	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
45	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	xcomp	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
59	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	like	like	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
64	bear	bear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
65	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | we |  |  | this land of the north |  | as children | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bring** | past | we |  |  |  |  | with flowers and bright sunshine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present · perfect | the wind |  |  |  |  | with flowers *= flower*; rough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **become** | present · passive |  | flowers *= flower* |  |  | now |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 6 | **not** **do** | present | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | like trees *= tree* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **bear** | infinitive |  | golden fruit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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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