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title: In the evening John's comrade prepared a large bowl of punch, and sa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening John's comrade prepared a large bowl of punch, and said, "Now let us be merry, and drink to the health of the princess." Who acts: comrade, us. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 84

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In the evening John's comrade prepared a large bowl of punch, and said, "Now let us be merry, and drink to the health of the princess."

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**Who acts:** comrade, us · **What happens:** prepare, say, let, be, drink · **To what, where:** large bowl, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, 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 (comrade, us), 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:pg27200:197:84
# text = In the evening John's comrade prepared a large bowl of punch, and said, "Now let us be merry, and drink to the health of the princess."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	punch	punch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | past | John's comrade | a large bowl of punch |  |  | evening |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | John's comrade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the health of the princess | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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