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title: They drank a mug of beer in the ferry-house, and used to converse wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They drank a mug of beer in the ferry-house, and used to converse with the student, for he was a clever young man, who knew his "Practica," as they called it; he could read Greek and Latin, and was well up in learned subjects. Who acts: students, Frank, clever young man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 174

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They drank a mug of beer in the ferry-house, and used to converse with the student, for he was a clever young man, who knew his "Practica," as they called it; he could read Greek and Latin, and was well up in learned subjects.

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**Who acts:** students, Frank, clever young man · **What happens:** drink, use, converse, be, know, call · **To what, where:** mug, clever young man, Practica, Greek, learned subjects · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (students, Frank, clever young man), 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:pg27200:149:174
# text = They drank a mug of beer in the ferry-house, and used to converse with the student, for he was a clever young man, who knew his "Practica," as they called it; he could read Greek and Latin, and was well up in learned subjects.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mug	mug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	converse	converse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Practica	Practica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
44	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	well	well	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	conj	_	_
51	up	up	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	amod	_	_
54	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | students *= student* | a mug of beer in the ferry house |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mug=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | past | students *= student* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **converse** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | students *= student* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the student | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with student=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Frank | a clever young man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | past | a clever young man | Frank's Practica |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer practica=Stimulus |
| 6 | **call** | past | students *= student* | mug |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 7 | **read** | could | Frank | Greek and Latin |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greek=Topic |
| 8 | **well up** | past · passive | Frank *not said here* |  |  | learned subjects |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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