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title: They were to assemble in the kitchen, and the three travelled mice w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were to assemble in the kitchen, and the three travelled mice were to stand in a row before them, while a sausage skewer, covered with crape, was to be stuck up instead of the missing mouse. Who acts: orders, three, mice. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 27

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They were to assemble in the kitchen, and the three travelled mice were to stand in a row before them, while a sausage skewer, covered with crape, was to be stuck up instead of the missing mouse.

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**Who acts:** orders, three, mice · **What happens:** assemble, travel, stand, cover, stick up · **To what, where:** kitchen, row, sausage skewer

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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 (orders, three, mice), 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:pg27200:178:27
# text = They were to assemble in the kitchen, and the three travelled mice were to stand in a row before them, while a sausage skewer, covered with crape, was to be stuck up instead of the missing mouse.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	assemble	assemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	skewer	skewer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	crape	crape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	41	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past | orders *= order* |  |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | past | the three |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | mice |  |  | a row | before orders *= order* |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  | a sausage skewer *not said here* |  |  |  | with crape | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with crape=Theme |
| 5 | **stick up** | past · passive |  | a sausage skewer |  |  |  | instead the missing mouse | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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