--- title: At all this the wicked demon laughed till his sides shook--it tickle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: At all this the wicked demon laughed till his sides shook--it tickled him so to see the mischief he had done. Who acts: wicked demon, sides, side, demon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragment --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Story the First. Which describes a loo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/) / 15 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 15 At all this the wicked demon laughed till his sides shook--it tickled him so to see the mischief he had done. **Who acts:** wicked demon, sides, side, demon · **What happens:** laugh, shake, tickle, see, do · **To what, where:** all, demon, mischief This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked demon, sides, side, demon), 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:pg27200:170:15 # text = At all this the wicked demon laughed till his sides shook--it tickled him so to see the mischief he had done. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 obl _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 demon demon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 till till SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 -- -- PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tickled tickle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mischief mischief NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | the wicked demon | | | all | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **shake** | past | demon's sides | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **tickle** | past | side | demon | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | side *not said here* | the mischief | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mischief=Stimulus | | 5 | **do** | past · perfect | demon | the mischief *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/16/) - ↑ back to [Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/)