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title: The last ingredient played a very prominent part in the salad; stale… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The last ingredient played a very prominent part in the salad; stale eggs and roasted cocks'-combs furnished the grand dish of the repast; the wine even was not without a disgusting taste--it was like a medicinal draught. Who acts: last ingredient, combs, ingredient. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 100

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The last ingredient played a very prominent part in the salad; stale eggs and roasted cocks'-combs furnished the grand dish of the repast; the wine even was not without a disgusting taste--it was like a medicinal draught.

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**Who acts:** last ingredient, combs, ingredient · **What happens:** play, roast, furnish, not be, be · **To what, where:** prominent part, salad, grand dish

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last ingredient, combs, ingredient), 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:pg1597:9:100
# text = The last ingredient played a very prominent part in the salad; stale eggs and roasted cocks'-combs furnished the grand dish of the repast; the wine even was not without a disgusting taste--it was like a medicinal draught.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ingredient	ingredient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	salad	salad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	stale	stale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	roasted	roast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	cocks	cock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	combs	comb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
34	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	medicinal	medicinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the last ingredient | a prominent part |  | the salad |  | stale eggs *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **roast** | past | the last ingredient *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **furnish** | past | cocks's combs | the grand dish of the repast |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | without a disgusting taste and a medicinal draught | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | ingredient |  |  |  |  | like a medicinal draught | tree rules |

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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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