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title: There were eels of the fattest, requiring brandy to bury them, as th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There were eels of the fattest, requiring brandy to bury them, as the eel-breeder said; and certainly they did not forget to carry out his maxim here. Who acts: eels, eel breeder. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 90

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There were eels of the fattest, requiring brandy to bury them, as the eel-breeder said; and certainly they did not forget to carry out his maxim here.

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**Who acts:** eels, eel breeder · **What happens:** be, require, bury, say, not forget, carry out · **To what, where:** eels, maxim · **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 (eels, 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:pg27200:159:90
# text = There were eels of the fattest, requiring brandy to bury them, as the eel-breeder said; and certainly they did not forget to carry out his maxim here.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	fattest	fat	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	requiring	require	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	breeder	breeder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	maxim	maxim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | eels of the requiring brandy |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **require** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bury** | to-infinitive | eels of the requiring brandy *not said here* | eels *= eel* |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eel breeder |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **forget** | past · do-support | eels *= eel* |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | eels *= eel* *not said here* | breeder's maxim |  | here |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maxim=Eventuality |

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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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