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title: Never were their hearts gladdened by the song and dance of the child… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Never were their hearts gladdened by the song and dance of the children issuing forth from amongst the ancient oaks of the forest. Who acts: children. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 62

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Never were their hearts gladdened by the song and dance of the children issuing forth from amongst the ancient oaks of the forest.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** not be, gladden, issue, dance · **To what, where:** hearts, ancient oaks, children

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (children), 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:pg14241:15:62
# text = Never were their hearts gladdened by the song and dance of the children issuing forth from amongst the ancient oaks of the forest.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	gladdened	gladden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	issuing	issue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | elders's hearts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gladden** | participle |  | elders's hearts *not said here* |  |  |  | by the song and dance of the children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **issue** | gerund | the children *not said here* |  |  | the ancient oaks of the forest |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dance** |  |  | the children |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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