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title: "Alas! how soon all that is good and beautiful passes away," sighed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Alas! how soon all that is good and beautiful passes away," sighed the elf. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 57

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"Alas! how soon all that is good and beautiful passes away," sighed the elf.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** be, pass away, sigh · **To what, where:** elf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg27200:30:57
# text = "Alas! how soon all that is good and beautiful passes away," sighed the elf.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | good, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass away** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sigh** | past |  | the elf |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elf=Topic |

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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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