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title: "We'll dance the bung out of the cask at carnival time," said he; "I… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "We'll dance the bung out of the cask at carnival time," said he; "I'll prepare a merry tune for you and for myself too. Who acts: We, luggage. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 27

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"We'll dance the bung out of the cask at carnival time," said he; "I'll prepare a merry tune for you and for myself too.

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**Who acts:** We, luggage · **What happens:** dance, say, prepare · **To what, where:** bung, cask, merry tune · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, luggage), 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:pg27200:82:27
# text = "We'll dance the bung out of the cask at carnival time," said he; "I'll prepare a merry tune for you and for myself too.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bung	bung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	carnival	carnival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	conj	_	_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** *in a quote* | future | We | the bung |  | the cask | time |  | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme bung=Destination out cask=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | luggage |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **prepare** *in a quote* | future | luggage | a merry tune |  |  |  | for you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tune=Product for you=Beneficiary |

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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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