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title: Year after year have I flown across and across the moor, but there w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Year after year have I flown across and across the moor, but there was no sign of her being still alive. Who acts: I, sign. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 38

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Year after year have I flown across and across the moor, but there was no sign of her being still alive.

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**Who acts:** I, sign · **What happens:** fly, be

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sign), 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:pg27200:85:38
# text = Year after year have I flown across and across the moor, but there was no sign of her being still alive.
1	Year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flown	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	across	across	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | year | across *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | no sign |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | no sign *not said here* |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | 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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