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title: And herein lies the truest pleasure, for joy which we cannot share w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And herein lies the truest pleasure, for joy which we cannot share with others is only half enjoyed." Who acts: we, half. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 65

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And herein lies the truest pleasure, for joy which we cannot share with others is only half enjoyed."

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**Who acts:** we, half · **What happens:** lie, not share, be · **To what, where:** truest pleasure, joy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, half), 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:pg27200:133:65
# text = And herein lies the truest pleasure, for joy which we cannot share with others is only half enjoyed."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	herein	herein	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	truest	true	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	20	nsubj	_	_
20	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | the truest pleasure |  |  |  | herein *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pleasure=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **share** | can | we | joy |  |  |  | with others | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | half |  |  |  |  | enjoy *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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