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title: There was greater mirth and rejoicing than I had ever heard in the h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was greater mirth and rejoicing than I had ever heard in the halls of the rich baronial house. Who acts: greater mirth, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 29

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There was greater mirth and rejoicing than I had ever heard in the halls of the rich baronial house.

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**Who acts:** greater mirth, I · **What happens:** be, rejoice, hear · **To what, where:** halls

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greater mirth, I), 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:pg27200:212:29
# text = There was greater mirth and rejoicing than I had ever heard in the halls of the rich baronial house.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	baronial	baronial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | greater mirth |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rejoice** | gerund | greater mirth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | I |  |  | the halls of the rich baronial house | ever |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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