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title: When they heard it they were like people intoxicated; however it mus… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When they heard it they were like people intoxicated; however it must have been with drinking tea, which is quite a Chinese custom. Who acts: waltzes, permission, drinking tea. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 94

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When they heard it they were like people intoxicated; however it must have been with drinking tea, which is quite a Chinese custom.

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**Who acts:** waltzes, permission, drinking tea · **What happens:** hear, be, intoxicate · **To what, where:** permission, people, Chinese custom

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waltzes, permission, drinking tea), 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:pg27200:125:94
# text = When they heard it they were like people intoxicated; however it must have been with drinking tea, which is quite a Chinese custom.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
9	intoxicated	intoxicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	however	however	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	25	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | waltzes *= waltz* | permission |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | waltzes *= waltz* |  |  |  |  | like people | tree rules |
| 3 | **intoxicate** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | must · perfect | permission |  |  |  |  | with drinking tea; however *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | drinking tea | quite Chinese custom |  |  |  |  | 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:** «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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