--- title: The wine was passed round freely, and the conversation kept up pleas… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The wine was passed round freely, and the conversation kept up pleasantly; but the evening seemed too short for Rudy, although it was midnight when he left the miller's house, after this his first visit. Who acts: conversation, evening, Rudy. 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C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation, evening, Rudy), 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:pg27200:57:25 # text = The wine was passed round freely, and the conversation kept up pleasantly; but the evening seemed too short for Rudy, although it was midnight when he left the miller's house, after this his first visit. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 round round ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 freely freely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 pleasantly pleasantly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 although although SCONJ IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 miller miller NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 obl _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 40 amod _ _ 40 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass round** | past · passive | | the wine | | | | freely, round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | | 2 | **keep up** | participle | the conversation | | | | | pleasantly *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seem** | past | the evening | | | | | short *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | conversation | | | | | although midnight | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | past | Rudy | the miller's house | | | after this | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent house=Theme visit=Attribute | | 6 | **visit** | | Rudy | | | | | | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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