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title: "When on the New Year's night the clock strikes twelve, the people a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "When on the New Year's night the clock strikes twelve, the people at the table rise up with full glasses in their hands, and drain these glasses, and drink success to the New Year. Who acts: clock, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 5

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"When on the New Year's night the clock strikes twelve, the people at the table rise up with full glasses in their hands, and drain these glasses, and drink success to the New Year.

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**Who acts:** clock, people · **What happens:** strike, rise up, drain, drink · **To what, where:** twelve, glasses, success

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clock, people), 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:pg27200:137:5
# text = "When on the New Year's night the clock strikes twelve, the people at the table rise up with full glasses in their hands, and drain these glasses, and drink success to the New Year.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	drain	drain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
30	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
35	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** *in a quote* | present | the clock | twelve |  |  | night |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient |
| 2 | **rise up** *in a quote* | infinitive | the people at the table |  |  |  |  | with full glasses in people's hands | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drain** *in a quote* | present |  | this glasses |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent glass=Source |
| 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | success |  |  | to the New Year |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Patient |

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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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