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title: The grand, majestic oak could not be quite happy in the midst of his… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The grand, majestic oak could not be quite happy in the midst of his enjoyment, while all the rest, both great and small, were not with him. Who acts: grand majestic oak, child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 63

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The grand, majestic oak could not be quite happy in the midst of his enjoyment, while all the rest, both great and small, were not with him.

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**Who acts:** grand majestic oak, child · **What happens:** not be, be, enjoy · **To what, where:** midst

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand majestic oak, child), 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:pg27200:69:63
# text = The grand, majestic oak could not be quite happy in the midst of his enjoyment, while all the rest, both great and small, were not with him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc:preconj	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | could | the grand majestic oak |  |  | the midst of child's enjoyment |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the grand majestic oak *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the grand majestic oak *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with child | tree rules |
| 4 | **enjoy** |  | child |  |  |  |  |  | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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