--- title: They drank their coffee and had a chat together, and then Anne Lisbe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They drank their coffee and had a chat together, and then Anne Lisbeth went away towards the little town where she was to meet the carrier, who was to drive her back to her own home. Who acts: hundreds, Anne, carrier. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds, Anne, carrier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:5:86 # text = They drank their coffee and had a chat together, and then Anne Lisbeth went away towards the little town where she was to meet the carrier, who was to drive her back to her own home. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 coffee coffee NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 13 Anne Anne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 Lisbeth Lisbeth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 towards towards ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 carrier carrier NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | past | hundreds *= hundred* | hundreds's coffee | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Patient | | 2 | **have** | past | hundreds *= hundred* *not said here* | a chat | | | | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient | | 3 | **go away** | past | Anne | | | the little town | then | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards town=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is** | past | Anne | | | | | meet *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | the carrier | | | | | to Anne's own home; drive *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/87/) - ↑ back to [Anne Lisbeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/)