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title: Laughter and the howls of dogs were heard through the open windows:… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Laughter and the howls of dogs were heard through the open windows: there they were feasting and revelling; wine and strong old ale were foaming in the glasses and jugs; the favourite dogs ate with their masters; now and then the squires kissed one of these animals, after having wiped its mouth firs
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 18

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Laughter and the howls of dogs were heard through the open windows: there they were feasting and revelling; wine and strong old ale were foaming in the glasses and jugs; the favourite dogs ate with their masters; now and then the squires kissed one of these animals, after having wiped its mouth first with the tablecloth.

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**Who acts:** Laughter, wine, favourite dogs, squires, dogs · **What happens:** hear, be, foam, eat, kiss, wipe · **To what, where:** Laughter, open windows, feasting, glasses, one, mouth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laughter, wine, favourite dogs, squires), 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:pg27200:155:18
# text = Laughter and the howls of dogs were heard through the open windows: there they were feasting and revelling; wine and strong old ale were foaming in the glasses and jugs; the favourite dogs ate with their masters; now and then the squires kissed one of these animals, after having wiped its mouth first with the tablecloth.
1	Laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	howls	howl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	revelling	revelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	foaming	foam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	jugs	jug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	squires	squire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
47	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
48	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	aux	_	_
55	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	conj	_	_
56	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	55	advmod	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	tablecloth	tablecloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | Laughter and the howls of dogs |  | the open windows |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Laughter | feasting and revelling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **foam** | past · progressive | wine and strong old ale | feasting and revelling *not said here* |  | the glasses and jugs |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location feasting=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | past | the favourite dogs |  |  |  |  | with dogs's masters | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kiss** | past | the squires | one of this animals |  |  | now; then |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **wipe** | gerund · perfect | the favourite dogs *not said here* | master's mouth |  |  |  | with the tablecloth; first *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mouth=Source |
| 7 | **howl** |  | dogs |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=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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