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title: There was music and song on board; and, as darkness came on, a hundr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was music and song on board; and, as darkness came on, a hundred colored lanterns were lighted, as if the flags of all nations waved in the air. Who acts: music, darkness, flags. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 78

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There was music and song on board; and, as darkness came on, a hundred colored lanterns were lighted, as if the flags of all nations waved in the air.

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**Who acts:** music, darkness, flags · **What happens:** be, come on, color, light, wave · **To what, where:** hundred colored lanterns

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, darkness, flags), 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:pg27200:75:78
# text = There was music and song on board; and, as darkness came on, a hundred colored lanterns were lighted, as if the flags of all nations waved in the air.
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	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | music on board and song |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come on** | past | darkness |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **light** | past · passive |  | a hundred colored lanterns |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **wave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the flags of all nations |  |  |  |  | in the air | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=Theme |

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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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