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title: Once three apples and a great piece of bread and butter and sausage… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Once three apples and a great piece of bread and butter and sausage fell down right into the dungeon of Ugolino, where that unhappy man was to be starved to death; and there was great laughter among the audience. Who acts: three apples. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 45

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Once three apples and a great piece of bread and butter and sausage fell down right into the dungeon of Ugolino, where that unhappy man was to be starved to death; and there was great laughter among the audience.

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**Who acts:** three apples · **What happens:** fall down, starve, be · **To what, where:** dungeon, unhappy man, great laughter

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three apples), 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:pg27200:139:45
# text = Once three apples and a great piece of bread and butter and sausage fell down right into the dungeon of Ugolino, where that unhappy man was to be starved to death; and there was great laughter among the audience.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	right	right	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ugolino	Ugolino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
39	among	among	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** | past | three apples and a great piece of bread and butter and sausage |  |  |  |  | into the dungeon of Ugolino *result*; down *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into dungeon=Result |
| 2 | **starve** | past · passive | three apples and a great piece of bread and butter and sausage *not said here* | that unhappy man |  |  |  | to death | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | great laughter |  |  |  | among the audience | 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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