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description: Three oxen, stuffed with ducks and chickens, were roasted whole in the market-place, where every one might help himself to a slice. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 68

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Three oxen, stuffed with ducks and chickens, were roasted whole in the market-place, where every one might help himself to a slice.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** stuff, roast, help · **To what, where:** Three oxen, joy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. 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:pg27200:198:68
# text = Three oxen, stuffed with ducks and chickens, were roasted whole in the market-place, where every one might help himself to a slice.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stuff** | participle |  | Three oxen *not said here* |  |  |  | with ducks and chickens | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with duck=Theme |
| 2 | **roast** | past · passive |  | Three oxen |  |  |  | in the market place; whole *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in place=Instrument |
| 3 | **help** | might | every one | joy |  |  |  | to a slice | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |

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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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