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title: And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing, and his heart san… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing, and his heart sang with the rest: all nature was a vast holy church, in which the trees and the buoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grass the velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the large cupola. Who acts: wood, heart, nature, vast holy chu
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 66

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And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing, and his heart sang with the rest: all nature was a vast holy church, in which the trees and the buoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grass the velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the large cupola.

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**Who acts:** wood, heart, nature, vast holy church, velvet, heaven · **What happens:** sing, be, carpet, cupola · **To what, where:** song, vast holy church, pillars, grass

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, heart, nature, vast holy church), 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:pg1597:18:66
# text = And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing, and his heart sang with the rest: all nature was a vast holy church, in which the trees and the buoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grass the velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the large cupola.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	buoyant	buoyant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	carpeting	carpet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
49	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
50	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	49	nmod:unmarked	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	cupola	cupola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the wood and the sea | a song of rejoicing |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | wood's heart |  |  |  |  | with the rest | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rest=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | all nature | a vast holy church and the pillars and flowers and grass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a vast holy church and the pillars and flowers and grass | the pillars and flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **carpet** | gerund | the velvet | grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent grass=Destination |
| 6 | **cupola** |  | heaven  heaven |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sing** |  | rejoicing |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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