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title: She gives a feast on the longest day of the year, that there may be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She gives a feast on the longest day of the year, that there may be time for her guests to partake of the numerous dishes at her table. Who acts: lady. 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 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 57

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She gives a feast on the longest day of the year, that there may be time for her guests to partake of the numerous dishes at her table.

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** give, be, partake · **To what, where:** feast, time

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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 (lady), 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:pg27200:82:57
# text = She gives a feast on the longest day of the year, that there may be time for her guests to partake of the numerous dishes at her table.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	partake	partake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | lady | a feast |  |  | day |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | time |  |  |  | for lady's guests | tree rules |
| 3 | **partake** | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the numerous dishes at lady's table | 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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