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title: Excellent!” resounded on all sides; and everyone was uncommonly gay. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Excellent!” resounded on all sides; and everyone was uncommonly gay. Who acts: everyone. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 61

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Excellent!” resounded on all sides; and everyone was uncommonly gay.

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**Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** resound, be · **To what, where:** sides

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone), 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:pg1597:2:61
# text = Excellent!” resounded on all sides; and everyone was uncommonly gay.
1	Excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	resounded	resound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	uncommonly	uncommonly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resound** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | all sides |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | gay, uncommonly *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:** «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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