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title: They all joined in the chorus of praise, both great and small,--the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They all joined in the chorus of praise, both great and small,--the good, happy child, and the poor field-flower, that once lay withered and cast away on a heap of rubbish in a narrow, dark street. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 40

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They all joined in the chorus of praise, both great and small,--the good, happy child, and the poor field-flower, that once lay withered and cast away on a heap of rubbish in a narrow, dark street.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** join, lie, wither, cast away, chorus · **To what, where:** others, chorus, heap, praise

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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 (that), 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:pg27200:4:40
# text = They all joined in the chorus of praise, both great and small,--the good, happy child, and the poor field-flower, that once lay withered and cast away on a heap of rubbish in a narrow, dark street.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc:preconj	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	advmod	_	_
31	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
32	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | participle · passive |  | others *= other* |  | the chorus of praise |  | the good happy child and the poor field flower *obl* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | past | that |  |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wither** | participle | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **cast away** | participle | that *not said here* |  |  | a heap of rubbish in a narrow dark street |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on heap=Destination |
| 5 | **chorus** |  |  | praise |  |  |  |  | nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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