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title: Joy reigned through the whole house, as well as in the stork's nest;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Joy reigned through the whole house, as well as in the stork's nest; although there the chief cause was really the good food, especially the quantities of frogs, which seemed to spring out of the ground in swarms. Who acts: Joy, chief cause, quantities. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 1

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Joy reigned through the whole house, as well as in the stork's nest; although there the chief cause was really the good food, especially the quantities of frogs, which seemed to spring out of the ground in swarms.

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**Who acts:** Joy, chief cause, quantities · **What happens:** reign, be, seem, spring out · **To what, where:** whole house, good food, ground, swarms

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joy, chief cause, quantities), 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:pg27200:88:1
# text = Joy reigned through the whole house, as well as in the stork's nest; although there the chief cause was really the good food, especially the quantities of frogs, which seemed to spring out of the ground in swarms.
1	Joy	Joy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	swarms	swarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | past | Joy |  |  | the whole house |  | in the stork's nest | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the chief cause | the good food and the quantities of frogs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the quantities of frogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **spring out** | to-infinitive | the quantities of frogs *not said here* | the ground |  | swarms |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ground=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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