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title: They all enjoyed the comedy so much, that they gave up all thoughts… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They all enjoyed the comedy so much, that they gave up all thoughts of the tea party, and only carried out their idea of intellectual amusement, which they called playing at men and women; and there was nothing wrong about it, for it was only play. Who acts: wires, nothing, idea. A sentence of «Fair
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 30

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They all enjoyed the comedy so much, that they gave up all thoughts of the tea party, and only carried out their idea of intellectual amusement, which they called playing at men and women; and there was nothing wrong about it, for it was only play.

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**Who acts:** wires, nothing, idea · **What happens:** enjoy, give up, carry out, call, play, be · **To what, where:** comedy, thoughts, idea, intellectual amusement, tea party · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wires, nothing, idea), 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:pg27200:90:30
# text = They all enjoyed the comedy so much, that they gave up all thoughts of the tea party, and only carried out their idea of intellectual amusement, which they called playing at men and women; and there was nothing wrong about it, for it was only play.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	comedy	comedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	41	expl	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	43	nsubj	_	_
43	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
44	about	about	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	only	only	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | past | wires *= wire* | the comedy |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comedy=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give up** | past | wires *= wire* | all thoughts of the tea party |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Source |
| 3 | **carry out** | participle | wires *= wire* *not said here* | wires's idea of intellectual amusement |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality |
| 4 | **call** | past | wires *= wire* | intellectual amusement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **play** | gerund | wires *= wire* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at men and women | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  | about amusement; wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | idea |  |  |  |  | for play | tree rules |
| 8 | **think** |  |  | the tea party |  |  |  |  | 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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