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title: We were very sociable, and there was as much joking and fun as if we… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We were very sociable, and there was as much joking and fun as if we had been all of one family circle. Who acts: We, much. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 7

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We were very sociable, and there was as much joking and fun as if we had been all of one family circle.

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**Who acts:** We, much · **What happens:** be, joke

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (We, much), 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:pg27200:178:7
# text = We were very sociable, and there was as much joking and fun as if we had been all of one family circle.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sociable	sociable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
11	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | We |  |  |  |  | sociable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | much |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | much *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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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