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title: Alive he filled the court with mirth; His death to sorrow soon gave… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Alive he filled the court with mirth; His death to sorrow soon gave birth. Who acts: Alive, death, Arthur. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 64

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Alive he filled the court with mirth; His death to sorrow soon gave birth.

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**Who acts:** Alive, death, Arthur · **What happens:** fill, sorrow, give, die · **To what, where:** court, birth

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alive, death, Arthur), 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:pg7439:28:64
# text = Alive he filled the court with mirth; His death to sorrow soon gave birth.
1	Alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	filled	fill	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	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sorrow	sorrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past | Alive | the court |  |  |  | with mirth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent court=Patient with mirth=Instrument |
| 2 | **sorrow** | to-infinitive | Arthur's death |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | Arthur's death *not said here* | birth |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme |
| 4 | **die** |  | Arthur |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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