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title: He was received with a hearty welcome, and introduced to plenty of g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was received with a hearty welcome, and introduced to plenty of grand and pleasant company, where overflowing winecups were passed about. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 113

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He was received with a hearty welcome, and introduced to plenty of grand and pleasant company, where overflowing winecups were passed about.

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**What happens:** receive, introduce, overflow, pass · **To what, where:** Sweetly, overflowing winecups

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:128:113
# text = He was received with a hearty welcome, and introduced to plenty of grand and pleasant company, where overflowing winecups were passed about.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hearty	hearty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	overflowing	overflow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	winecups	winecup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · passive |  | Sweetly |  |  |  | with a hearty welcome | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **introduce** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to plenty of grand company | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to plenty=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **overflow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | past · passive |  | overflowing winecups |  |  |  | about *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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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