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title: Life and cheerfulness gleamed there, and busy industry plied its work. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Life and cheerfulness gleamed there, and busy industry plied its work. Who acts: Life, busy industry, industry. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 55

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Life and cheerfulness gleamed there, and busy industry plied its work.

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**Who acts:** Life, busy industry, industry · **What happens:** gleam, ply, work · **To what, where:** work

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life, busy industry, industry), 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:pg27200:151:55
# text = Life and cheerfulness gleamed there, and busy industry plied its work.
1	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cheerfulness	cheerfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	plied	ply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | past | Life and cheerfulness |  |  | there |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ply** | past | busy industry | industry's work |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent work=Recipient |
| 3 | **work** |  | industry |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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:** «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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