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title: The wish passed round, and the glasses clashed together till they ra… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wish passed round, and the glasses clashed together till they rang again; while before the town-gate the mail coach stopped with the twelve strange passengers. Who acts: wish, glasses, mail coach. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 8

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The wish passed round, and the glasses clashed together till they rang again; while before the town-gate the mail coach stopped with the twelve strange passengers.

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**Who acts:** wish, glasses, mail coach · **What happens:** pass round, clash, ring, stop

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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 (wish, glasses, mail coach), 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:pg27200:82:8
# text = The wish passed round, and the glasses clashed together till they rang again; while before the town-gate the mail coach stopped with the twelve strange passengers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	clashed	clash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass round** | participle | the wish |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **clash** | past | the glasses |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ring** | past | glasses *= glass* |  |  |  | again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | past | the mail coach |  |  |  | before the town gate | with the twelve strange passengers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with passenger=Location |

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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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