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title: But for dessert they produced a pea, on which a mouse belonging to t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But for dessert they produced a pea, on which a mouse belonging to the bridal pair had bitten the first letters of their names. Who acts: friends, mouse. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 116

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But for dessert they produced a pea, on which a mouse belonging to the bridal pair had bitten the first letters of their names.

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**Who acts:** friends, mouse · **What happens:** produce, belong, bite, letter, name · **To what, where:** pea, mouse, names

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, mouse), 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:pg27200:134:116
# text = But for dessert they produced a pea, on which a mouse belonging to the bridal pair had bitten the first letters of their names.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dessert	dessert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **produce** | past | friends *= friend* | a pea |  |  |  | for dessert | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pea=Result for dessert=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | a mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the bridal pair | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bite** | past · perfect · passive |  | a mouse |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient letter=Result |
| 4 | **letter** |  |  | friends's names |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **name** |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: 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:** «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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