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title: Out of a small tavern in one of the streets there were sounds of sin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of a small tavern in one of the streets there were sounds of singing and of unhallowed laughter, from people who drank the night through to forget that the plague was at their doors, and that they might be put into the wagon as the others had been. Who acts: sounds, people, plague. A sentence of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 144

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Out of a small tavern in one of the streets there were sounds of singing and of unhallowed laughter, from people who drank the night through to forget that the plague was at their doors, and that they might be put into the wagon as the others had been.

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**Who acts:** sounds, people, plague · **What happens:** sing, unhallow, drink, forget, be, put · **To what, where:** doors, sounds, wagon

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sounds, people, plague), 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:pg27200:149:144
# text = Out of a small tavern in one of the streets there were sounds of singing and of unhallowed laughter, from people who drank the night through to forget that the plague was at their doors, and that they might be put into the wagon as the others had been.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tavern	tavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	unhallowed	unhallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	through	through	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | sounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **unhallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drink** | past | people |  |  |  | night | through *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **forget** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | sounds's doors |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** | might · passive |  | sounds *= sound* |  | the wagon |  | as the others | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 7 | **be** | past · perfect | the plague |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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