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title: Then, as the violins played and the girls danced round the room, he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, as the violins played and the girls danced round the room, he started; for it seemed to him as if he were in a place where he ought not to have brought Joanna, for she was here with him in his heart; and so he went out at once. Who acts: girls, Knud, it, room. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Han
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 47

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Then, as the violins played and the girls danced round the room, he started; for it seemed to him as if he were in a place where he ought not to have brought Joanna, for she was here with him in his heart; and so he went out at once.

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**Who acts:** girls, Knud, it, room · **What happens:** play, dance, start, seem, be, not bring · **To what, where:** room, Knud, place, Joanna

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, Knud, it, room), 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:pg27200:203:47
# text = Then, as the violins played and the girls danced round the room, he started; for it seemed to him as if he were in a place where he ought not to have brought Joanna, for she was here with him in his heart; and so he went out at once.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	violins	violin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
32	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
37	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	parataxis	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
53	out	out	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past |  |  |  |  | then | as the violins | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dance** | past | the girls |  |  | the room |  |  | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round room=Trajectory |
| 3 | **start** | past | Knud |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **seem** | past | it |  | Knud |  |  | in Knud's heart | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in heart=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Knud |  |  | a place |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **bring** | ought · perfect | Knud |  | Joanna |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument joanna=Destination |
| 7 | **is** | past | room |  |  |  |  | with Knud; here *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **go out** | past | Knud |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «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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