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title: "No; I shall very likely live for thousands of your days, and my day… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "No; I shall very likely live for thousands of your days, and my day is whole seasons long; indeed it is so long that you could never reckon it out." Who acts: little creature, day, melancholy, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old O
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 13

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"No; I shall very likely live for thousands of your days, and my day is whole seasons long; indeed it is so long that you could never reckon it out."

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**Who acts:** little creature, day, melancholy, you · **What happens:** live, be, not reckon out · **To what, where:** whole seasons, melancholy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little creature, day, melancholy, 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:pg27200:69:13
# text = "No; I shall very likely live for thousands of your days, and my day is whole seasons long; indeed it is so long that you could never reckon it out."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | shall | the little creature *= creature* |  |  |  |  | for thousands of your days; likely *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | my day | whole seasons |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | melancholy |  |  |  |  | indeed, long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **reckon out** *in a quote* | could | you | melancholy |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |

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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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