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title: It was spring and it became summer, it was autumn and it became wint… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was spring and it became summer, it was autumn and it became winter, and thousands of pictures reflected themselves in the boy's eyes and heart, and the little girl always sang again, "You will never forget that!" Who acts: couple, thousands, little girl, You. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 83

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It was spring and it became summer, it was autumn and it became winter, and thousands of pictures reflected themselves in the boy's eyes and heart, and the little girl always sang again, "You will never forget that!"

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**Who acts:** couple, thousands, little girl, You · **What happens:** be, become, reflect, sing, not forget · **To what, where:** spring, summer, autumn, winter, thousands, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple, thousands, little girl, 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:pg27200:72:83
# text = It was spring and it became summer, it was autumn and it became winter, and thousands of pictures reflected themselves in the boy's eyes and heart, and the little girl always sang again, "You will never forget that!"
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	36	advmod	_	_
36	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | couple | spring |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | couple | summer and autumn |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | couple | autumn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | past | couple | winter |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **reflect** | past | thousands of pictures | thousands *= thousand* |  | the boy's eyes and heart |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the little girl |  |  |  | again | always *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **forget** *in a quote* | future | You | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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