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title: But the king would not listen to this; he ordered the music to sound… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the king would not listen to this; he ordered the music to sound, the daintiest dishes to be served, and the loveliest maidens to dance. Who acts: king, music, loveliest maidens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 96

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But the king would not listen to this; he ordered the music to sound, the daintiest dishes to be served, and the loveliest maidens to dance.

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**Who acts:** king, music, loveliest maidens · **What happens:** not listen, order, sound, serve, dance · **To what, where:** music, daintiest dishes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (king, music, loveliest maidens), 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:pg27200:209:96
# text = But the king would not listen to this; he ordered the music to sound, the daintiest dishes to be served, and the loveliest maidens to dance.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	daintiest	dainty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **listen** | would | the king |  |  |  |  | to this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past | king | the music |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent music=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sound** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the music *not said here* | the daintiest dishes |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dish=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | to-infinitive · passive | the music *not said here* | the daintiest dishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute» |
| 5 | **dance** | to-infinitive | the loveliest maidens |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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