--- title: Ah, yes, there is always some trouble mixed up with the greatest ple… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Ah, yes, there is always some trouble mixed up with the greatest pleasure," said the mouse-king; but he gave orders that all the mice within a circle of many miles should be invited at once. Who acts: trouble, mouse. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, mouse), 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:pg27200:178:26 # text = Ah, yes, there is always some trouble mixed up with the greatest pleasure," said the mouse-king; but he gave orders that all the mice within a circle of many miles should be invited at once. 1 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 1 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 10 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 within within ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 38 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | some trouble | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mix up** | participle | | some trouble *not said here* | | | | with the greatest pleasure | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with pleasure=Co-Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | some trouble | the mouse king | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | past | mouse | orders | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 5 | **invite** *in a quote* | should · passive | | orders | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/27/) - ↑ back to [Soup From a Sausage Skewer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/)