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title: The fountains spouted forth the most delicious wine, and whoever bou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The fountains spouted forth the most delicious wine, and whoever bought a penny loaf at the baker's received six large buns, full of raisins, as a present. Who acts: fountains, whoever. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 69

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The fountains spouted forth the most delicious wine, and whoever bought a penny loaf at the baker's received six large buns, full of raisins, as a present.

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**Who acts:** fountains, whoever · **What happens:** spout, buy, receive · **To what, where:** delicious wine, penny loaf, received six large buns

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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 (fountains, whoever), 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:pg27200:198:69
# text = The fountains spouted forth the most delicious wine, and whoever bought a penny loaf at the baker's received six large buns, full of raisins, as a present.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spouted	spout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	buns	bun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	raisins	raisin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	dislocated	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spout** | past | the fountains | the delicious wine |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wine=Source |
| 2 | **buy** | past | whoever | a penny loaf |  | the baker's received six large buns |  | a present *dislocated* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme at bun=Asset |
| 3 | **receive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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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