--- title: "Hurrah! hurrah!" cried the people in the town; for in every house t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Hurrah! hurrah!" cried the people in the town; for in every house the New Year was being welcomed; and as the clock struck, they stood up, the full glasses in their hands, to drink success to the new comer. " Who acts: Hurrah, house, clock, people. 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" **Who acts:** Hurrah, house, clock, people · **What happens:** cry, welcome, strike, stand up, drink · **To what, where:** people, town, New Year, full glasses, success 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 (Hurrah, house, clock, people), 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:pg27200:82:6 # text = "Hurrah! hurrah!" cried the people in the town; for in every house the New Year was being welcomed; and as the clock struck, they stood up, the full glasses in their hands, to drink success to the new comer. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hurrah Hurrah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 hurrah hurrah NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 welcomed welcome VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 44 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 comer comer NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Hurrah | the people | | the town | | for every house | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 2 | **welcome** | past · passive | every house *not said here* | the New Year | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP» | | 3 | **strike** | past | the clock | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stand up** | past | people | the full glasses in people's hands | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | success | | | | to the new comer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Patient | 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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