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title: A capital toast was drunk to the inventor of the soup, and some one… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A capital toast was drunk to the inventor of the soup, and some one said he ought to be made a relieving officer to the poor. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 10

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A capital toast was drunk to the inventor of the soup, and some one said he ought to be made a relieving officer to the poor.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** drink, say, make, relieve · **To what, where:** capital toast, Soup · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg27200:178:10
# text = A capital toast was drunk to the inventor of the soup, and some one said he ought to be made a relieving officer to the poor.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	inventor	inventor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	relieving	relieve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past · passive |  | a capital toast |  |  |  | to the inventor of the soup | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | some one |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | ought · passive |  | Soup |  |  |  | to the poor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary officer=Product |
| 4 | **relieve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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