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title: Bushels of salt have been eaten since then, and people may well be t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Bushels of salt have been eaten since then, and people may well be thirsty," and Martha smiled. " Who acts: people, Martha. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 52

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Bushels of salt have been eaten since then, and people may well be thirsty," and Martha smiled. "

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**Who acts:** people, Martha · **What happens:** eat, be, smile · **To what, where:** Bushels

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Martha), 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:pg27200:46:52
# text = Bushels of salt have been eaten since then, and people may well be thirsty," and Martha smiled. "
1	Bushels	bushel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	since	since	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Martha	Martha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present · perfect · passive |  | Bushels of salt |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | may | people |  |  |  |  | thirsty, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **smile** *in a quote* | past | Martha |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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