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title: The bung was in the cask, but one of the little moor-imps pulled it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bung was in the cask, but one of the little moor-imps pulled it out in his mischief, and flung it up into the yard, where it beat against the window; and now the beer's running out of the cask, and that won't do good to anybody." Who acts: bung, one, beer, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Han
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 84

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The bung was in the cask, but one of the little moor-imps pulled it out in his mischief, and flung it up into the yard, where it beat against the window; and now the beer's running out of the cask, and that won't do good to anybody."

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**Who acts:** bung, one, beer, that · **What happens:** be, pull out, fling up, beat, run, not do · **To what, where:** cask, bung, mischief, window, good

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bung, one, beer, that), 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:pg27200:211:84
# text = The bung was in the cask, but one of the little moor-imps pulled it out in his mischief, and flung it up into the yard, where it beat against the window; and now the beer's running out of the cask, and that won't do good to anybody."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bung	bung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	imps	imp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
16	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
34	against	against	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	's	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	nsubj	_	_
51	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
53	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
54	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	obj	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the bung |  |  | the cask |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull out** | past | one of the little moor imps | bung |  | Holger's mischief |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fling up** | past |  | bung |  |  |  | into the yard | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into yard=Destination |
| 4 | **beat** | past | bung |  |  | the window |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against window=Location |
| 5 | **run** | gerund | the beer *not said here* |  |  | the cask |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cask=Trajectory |
| 6 | **not** **do** | future | that | good |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |

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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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