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title: In the same courtyard two of the merry children were playing who had… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the same courtyard two of the merry children were playing who had danced round the tree at Christmas, and had been so happy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 146

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In the same courtyard two of the merry children were playing who had danced round the tree at Christmas, and had been so happy.

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**What happens:** play, dance, be · **To what, where:** same courtyard, Christmas

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. 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:pg27200:33:146
# text = In the same courtyard two of the merry children were playing who had danced round the tree at Christmas, and had been so happy.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	danced	dance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
15	round	round	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the same courtyard |  | of the merry children | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **dance** | past · perfect |  |  |  | Christmas |  | round the tree | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at christmas=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | 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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