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title: All was joy and gayety on board ship till long after midnight; she l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All was joy and gayety on board ship till long after midnight; she laughed and danced with the rest, while the thoughts of death were in her heart. Who acts: joy, thoughts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 19

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All was joy and gayety on board ship till long after midnight; she laughed and danced with the rest, while the thoughts of death were in her heart.

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**Who acts:** joy, thoughts · **What happens:** be, laugh, dance, think · **To what, where:** joy, heart, death

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, thoughts), 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:pg27200:78:19
# text = All was joy and gayety on board ship till long after midnight; she laughed and danced with the rest, while the thoughts of death were in her heart.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gayety	gayety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	till	till	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | all joy and gayety on board ship |  |  | midnight |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | all joy and gayety on board ship |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dance** | past | all joy and gayety on board ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the rest | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the thoughts of death |  |  | present's heart |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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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