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title: "Take from me the years that were destined for me, and give me but h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Take from me the years that were destined for me, and give me but half of the life of the ephemeral fly! Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 75

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"Take from me the years that were destined for me, and give me but half of the life of the ephemeral fly!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, destine, give · **To what, where:** years, Notre

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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 (you), 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:pg27200:25:75
# text = "Take from me the years that were destined for me, and give me but half of the life of the ephemeral fly!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	ephemeral	ephemeral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year | from Notre | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **destine** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the years |  |  |  | for Notre | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Notre |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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