--- title: Once, but long years had intervened since then, guitars and Eolian h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Once, but long years had intervened since then, guitars and Eolian harps had been hung on his boughs by merry travellers; now they seemed to hang there again, and he could hear their marvellous tones. Who acts: long years, merry travellers, guitars, cuckoo. 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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 (long years, merry travellers, guitars, cuckoo), 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:pg27200:69:54 # text = Once, but long years had intervened since then, guitars and Eolian harps had been hung on his boughs by merry travellers; now they seemed to hang there again, and he could hear their marvellous tones. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 intervened intervene VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 since since ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 guitars guitar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Eolian eolian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 harps harp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 boughs bough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 marvellous marvellous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **intervene** | past · perfect | long years | | | | | once *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hang** | past · perfect · passive | merry travellers | guitars and Eolian harps | | cuckoo's boughs | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on bough=Destination | | 3 | **seem** | past | guitars *= guitar* | | | | now | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **hang** | to-infinitive | guitars *= guitar* *not said here* | | | there | again | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hear** | could | cuckoo | guitars's marvellous tones | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus | | 6 | **intonate** | | guitars *= guitar* | | | | | | nom tone «communication 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. 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