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title: They gave me onions and musty wine from a tarred cask; but we were n… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They gave me onions and musty wine from a tarred cask; but we were not accustomed to much better fare at home. Who acts: coins. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 59

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They gave me onions and musty wine from a tarred cask; but we were not accustomed to much better fare at home.

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**Who acts:** coins · **What happens:** give, tar, not accustom · **To what, where:** onions, me, we

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coins), 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:pg27200:36:59
# text = They gave me onions and musty wine from a tarred cask; but we were not accustomed to much better fare at home.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	onions	onion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	musty	musty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tarred	tar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | coins *= coin* | onions and musty wine from a tarred cask | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient onion=Theme |
| 2 | **tar** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **accustom** | past · passive |  | we |  |  |  | to better fare at home | tree rules |

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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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