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title: Then it joined in the song of the angels, who surrounded the throne,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it joined in the song of the angels, who surrounded the throne, some near, and others in a distant circle, but all equally happy. Who acts: heart, angels. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 39

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Then it joined in the song of the angels, who surrounded the throne, some near, and others in a distant circle, but all equally happy.

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**Who acts:** heart, angels · **What happens:** join, surround, sing · **To what, where:** others, angels

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, angels), 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:pg27200:4:39
# text = Then it joined in the song of the angels, who surrounded the throne, some near, and others in a distant circle, but all equally happy.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
17	near	near	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
28	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | heart | others in a distant circle |  |  | then | in the song of the angels; near *property* | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in song=Theme |
| 2 | **surround** | participle · passive |  | the angels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** |  | the angels |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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