--- title: It was just three hundred and sixty-five years old, but that long ti… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It was just three hundred and sixty-five years old, but that long time was to the tree as the same number of days might be to us; we wake by day and sleep by night, and then we have our dreams. Who acts: tree, long time, we, our. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (tree, long time, we, our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:69:2 # text = It was just three hundred and sixty-five years old, but that long time was to the tree as the same number of days might be to us; we wake by day and sleep by night, and then we have our dreams. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 compound _ _ 5 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 15 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 wake wake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 43 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 45 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | tree | three hundred | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | that long time | | | | | to the tree; as the same number of days | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | might | | | | | | to us | tree rules | | 4 | **wake** | present | we | | | | day; night | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **have** | present | we | our dreams | | | then | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | | 6 | **dream** | | our | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/3/) - ↑ back to [The Last Dream of the Old Oak](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/)