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title: They all received a small glassful or a cupful if there were not eno… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They all received a small glassful or a cupful if there were not enough glasses; even Jurgen had about a thimbleful, that he might digest the fat eel, as the eel-breeder said; he always told one story over and over again, and if his hearers laughed he would immediately repeat it to them. Who acts: f
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 37

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They all received a small glassful or a cupful if there were not enough glasses; even Jurgen had about a thimbleful, that he might digest the fat eel, as the eel-breeder said; he always told one story over and over again, and if his hearers laughed he would immediately repeat it to them.

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**Who acts:** fellow, enough glasses, Jurgen, eel breeder, breeder, hearers · **What happens:** receive, be, have, digest, say, tell · **To what, where:** small glassful, fat eel, one story, thimbleful, fellow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, enough glasses, Jurgen, eel breeder), 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:pg27200:159:37
# text = They all received a small glassful or a cupful if there were not enough glasses; even Jurgen had about a thimbleful, that he might digest the fat eel, as the eel-breeder said; he always told one story over and over again, and if his hearers laughed he would immediately repeat it to them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	det	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	glassful	glassful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cupful	cupful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thimbleful	thimbleful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	breeder	breeder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	41	advmod	_	_
41	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	over	over	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	over	over	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	again	again	ADV	RB	_	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	hearers	hearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
53	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	ccomp	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | fellow | a small glassful or a cupful |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glassful=Theme |
| 2 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | enough glasses |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | about a thimbleful | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **digest** | might | Jurgen | the fat eel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eel breeder |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | breeder | one story |  |  |  | always, over *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 7 | **laugh** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | breeder's hearers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **repeat** | would | breeder | thimbleful | fellow |  |  | immediately *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to they=Recipient |

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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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