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title: There was music and songs of the kind which delight most those that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was music and songs of the kind which delight most those that perform them; otherwise quite charming! Who acts: music, kind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 103

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There was music and songs of the kind which delight most those that perform them; otherwise quite charming!

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**Who acts:** music, kind · **What happens:** be, delight, perform, sing · **To what, where:** charming, kind, music

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, kind), 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:pg27200:155:103
# text = There was music and songs of the kind which delight most those that perform them; otherwise quite charming!
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	delight	delight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | music and songs of the kind | charming |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **delight** | present | the kind | the kind |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer |
| 3 | **perform** | present |  | music |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** |  | the kind |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «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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