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title: "A bitter time will come for thee at last," continued the Viking's w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "A bitter time will come for thee at last," continued the Viking's wife; "and it will be terrible for me too. Who acts: bitter time, form. 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 80

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"A bitter time will come for thee at last," continued the Viking's wife; "and it will be terrible for me too.

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**Who acts:** bitter time, form · **What happens:** come, continue, be · **To what, where:** last, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bitter time, form), 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:pg27200:85:80
# text = "A bitter time will come for thee at last," continued the Viking's wife; "and it will be terrible for me too.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | future | a bitter time |  |  | last |  | for thee | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **continue** | past |  | the Viking's wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | form |  |  |  |  | for wife; terrible *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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