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title: They poured out the liquor, and made the most friendly gesticulation… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They poured out the liquor, and made the most friendly gesticulations; while a cold perspiration trickled down the back of the poor Councillor. Who acts: maidens, cold perspiration. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and t
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 7

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They poured out the liquor, and made the most friendly gesticulations; while a cold perspiration trickled down the back of the poor Councillor.

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**Who acts:** maidens, cold perspiration · **What happens:** pour out, make, trickle down · **To what, where:** liquor, friendly gesticulations, back

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, cold perspiration), 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:pg1597:6:7
# text = They poured out the liquor, and made the most friendly gesticulations; while a cold perspiration trickled down the back of the poor Councillor.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	liquor	liquor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gesticulations	gesticulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	trickled	trickle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour out** | past | maidens *= maiden* | the liquor |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | maidens *= maiden* *not said here* | the friendly gesticulations |  |  |  | a cold perspiration *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gesticulation=Product |
| 3 | **trickle down** | participle | a cold perspiration *not said here* | the back of the poor Councillor |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location back=Source |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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