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title: That is madness--a joyless madness--besieged by fear and dreadful dr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That is madness--a joyless madness--besieged by fear and dreadful dreams!" A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 60

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That is madness--a joyless madness--besieged by fear and dreadful dreams!"

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**What happens:** be, besiege · **To what, where:** madness, joyless madness

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:2:60
# text = That is madness--a joyless madness--besieged by fear and dreadful dreams!"
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	joyless	joyless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	besieged	besiege	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | that madness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **besiege** | participle |  | a joyless madness *not said here* |  |  |  | by fear and dreadful dreams | tree rules |

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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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