--- title: In the palace there were great festivities, and the children played… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the palace there were great festivities, and the children played at receiving company; but instead of having, as usual, all the cakes and apples that were left, she gave them some sand in a tea-cup, and told them to pretend it was cake. Who acts: children, queen, sand. 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C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, queen, sand), 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:pg27200:208:8 # text = In the palace there were great festivities, and the children played at receiving company; but instead of having, as usual, all the cakes and apples that were left, she gave them some sand in a tea-cup, and told them to pretend it was cake. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 nsubj:outer _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 festivities festivity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 at at SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 receiving receive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 20 mark _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 iobj _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 pretend pretend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 52 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | past | the children | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **receive** | gerund | the children *not said here* | company | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme | | 3 | **have** | gerund | | all cakes and apples | | | | usual *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **leave** | past · passive | | that | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **give** | past | queen | some sand | children *= child* | a tea cup | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient sand=Theme | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | queen *not said here* | | children *= child* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **pretend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | past | sand | cake | | | | | tree rules | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/9/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/)