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title: How many of the people with whom in those days we used to be on inti… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How many of the people with whom in those days we used to be on intimate terms appear to us as if dead, and yet they are still alive--only we have not thought of them for such a long time, whom we imagined we should retain in our memories for ever, and share every joy and sorrow with them. Who acts:
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 17

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How many of the people with whom in those days we used to be on intimate terms appear to us as if dead, and yet they are still alive--only we have not thought of them for such a long time, whom we imagined we should retain in our memories for ever, and share every joy and sorrow with them.

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**Who acts:** we, intimate terms, terms, many · **What happens:** use, be, not think, imagine, retain, share · **To what, where:** us, long time, memories, joy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, intimate terms, terms, many), 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:pg27200:29:17
# text = How many of the people with whom in those days we used to be on intimate terms appear to us as if dead, and yet they are still alive--only we have not thought of them for such a long time, whom we imagined we should retain in our memories for ever, and share every joy and sorrow with them.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	43	det:predet	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
46	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
48	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	ccomp	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
59	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	60	det	_	_
60	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	_
63	with	with	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	58	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | we |  |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | intimate terms |  | us |  |  | as dead; appear *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | terms *= term* |  |  |  | yet; still | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | we |  |  |  | time | of terms *= term* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **imagine** | past | we | such long time |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **retain** | should | we |  |  | our memories |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **share** | present | many of the people | every joy and sorrow with terms |  |  |  |  | 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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