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title: Some travellers who were here yesterday with their guide left behind… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Some travellers who were here yesterday with their guide left behind them a half a flask of wine, such as you have never tasted. Who acts: travellers, guide, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 33

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Some travellers who were here yesterday with their guide left behind them a half a flask of wine, such as you have never tasted.

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**Who acts:** travellers, guide, you · **What happens:** be, leave, not taste · **To what, where:** flask

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travellers, guide, you), 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:pg27200:63:33
# text = Some travellers who were here yesterday with their guide left behind them a half a flask of wine, such as you have never tasted.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | some travellers |  |  |  |  | with travellers's guide | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | participle | travellers's guide *not said here* | a flask of wine |  |  |  | behind travellers *= traveller* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind they=Location |
| 3 | **not** **taste** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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