--- title: As soon as the ceremony was concluded, all the furniture in the room… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the ceremony was concluded, all the furniture in the room joined in singing a beautiful song, which had been composed by the lead pencil, and which went to the melody of a military tattoo. Who acts: furniture. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (furniture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:134:137 # text = As soon as the ceremony was concluded, all the furniture in the room joined in singing a beautiful song, which had been composed by the lead pencil, and which went to the melody of a military tattoo. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ceremony ceremony NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 concluded conclude VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 furniture furniture NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 in in SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 composed compose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 melody melody NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 tattoo tattoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **conclude** | past · passive | | the ceremony | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **join** | past | all furniture in the room | | | | | soon *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | all furniture in the room *not said here* | a beautiful song | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 4 | **compose** | past · perfect · passive | | a beautiful song | | | | by the lead pencil | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 5 | **go** | past | | | | the melody of a military tattoo | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to melody=Initial\_Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/138/) - ↑ back to [Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/)