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title: The slaves next performed some pretty fairy-like dances, to the soun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The slaves next performed some pretty fairy-like dances, to the sound of beautiful music. Who acts: slaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 49

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The slaves next performed some pretty fairy-like dances, to the sound of beautiful music.

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**Who acts:** slaves · **What happens:** perform · **To what, where:** pretty like dances

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves), 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:pg27200:77:49
# text = The slaves next performed some pretty fairy-like dances, to the sound of beautiful music.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | past | the slaves | some pretty like dances |  |  |  | to the sound of beautiful music; next *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=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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