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title: Time-passed--a long bitter time--then Inge heard her name pronounced… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Time-passed--a long bitter time--then Inge heard her name pronounced once more, and saw what seemed two bright stars shining above her. Who acts: Time, Inge, name, two bright stars. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 70

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Time-passed--a long bitter time--then Inge heard her name pronounced once more, and saw what seemed two bright stars shining above her.

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**Who acts:** Time, Inge, name, two bright stars, mistress · **What happens:** pass, hear, pronounce, see, seem, shine · **To what, where:** two bright stars · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Time, Inge, name, two bright stars), 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:pg27200:37:70
# text = Time-passed--a long bitter time--then Inge heard her name pronounced once more, and saw what seemed two bright stars shining above her.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	Inge	Inge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
22	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	above	above	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle | Time |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Inge |  |  |  | then |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pronounce** | past | mistress's name |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | past | Inge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **seem** | past |  | two bright stars |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme star=Attribute |
| 6 | **shine** | gerund | two bright stars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | above mistress | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above she=Location |
| 7 | **name** |  | mistress |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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