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title: Make haste into the guard room; they're drinking punch there; that's… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Make haste into the guard room; they're drinking punch there; that's your favorite drink. Who acts: you, violets, that. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 38

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Make haste into the guard room; they're drinking punch there; that's your favorite drink.

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**Who acts:** you, violets, that · **What happens:** make, drink, be · **To what, where:** haste, guard room, punch, favorite drink

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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 (you, violets, that), 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:pg27200:82:38
# text = Make haste into the guard room; they're drinking punch there; that's your favorite drink.
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
11	punch	punch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | haste |  | the guard room |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent haste=Material into room=Product |
| 2 | **drink** | present · progressive | violets *= violet* | punch |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punch=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | your favorite drink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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