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title: The next day that dawned, the next night that fell, offered the same… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day that dawned, the next night that fell, offered the same spectacle, similar bustle, similar life; changing, indeed, yet always the same; and thus it went on through the sequence of days. Who acts: next day, next night, life. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 61

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The next day that dawned, the next night that fell, offered the same spectacle, similar bustle, similar life; changing, indeed, yet always the same; and thus it went on through the sequence of days.

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**Who acts:** next day, next night, life · **What happens:** dawn, fall, offer, change, go on · **To what, where:** same spectacle, sequence

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, next night, life), 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:pg27200:25:61
# text = The next day that dawned, the next night that fell, offered the same spectacle, similar bustle, similar life; changing, indeed, yet always the same; and thus it went on through the sequence of days.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bustle	bustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sequence	sequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | past | the next day |  |  |  | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the next night |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | past | the next day | the same spectacle and similar bustle and similar life |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme |
| 4 | **change** | gerund | the next day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go on** | past | life |  |  | the sequence of days |  | thus *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through sequence=Location |

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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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