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title: In the following year, one of the sisters would be fifteen: but as e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the following year, one of the sisters would be fifteen: but as each was a year younger than the other, the youngest would have to wait five years before her turn came to rise up from the bottom of the ocean, and see the earth as we do. Who acts: youngest, turn, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 32

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In the following year, one of the sisters would be fifteen: but as each was a year younger than the other, the youngest would have to wait five years before her turn came to rise up from the bottom of the ocean, and see the earth as we do.

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**Who acts:** youngest, turn, we · **What happens:** follow, be, have, wait, come, rise up · **To what, where:** fifteen, year, bottom, earth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, turn, we), 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:pg27200:75:32
# text = In the following year, one of the sisters would be fifteen: but as each was a year younger than the other, the youngest would have to wait five years before her turn came to rise up from the bottom of the ocean, and see the earth as we do.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	advcl	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | would |  | fifteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | each year |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | would | the youngest |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wait** | to-infinitive | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | shadow's turn |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **rise up** | to-infinitive | shadow's turn *not said here* |  |  | the bottom of the ocean |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bottom=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **see** | infinitive | the youngest *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earth=Stimulus |
| 9 | **do** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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