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title: They drank deeply, and threw in each other's faces the bones that we… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They drank deeply, and threw in each other's faces the bones that were left, which was looked upon as a sign of good feeling amongst them. Who acts: wrongs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 17

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They drank deeply, and threw in each other's faces the bones that were left, which was looked upon as a sign of good feeling amongst them.

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**Who acts:** wrongs · **What happens:** drink, throw, leave, look upon, sign · **To what, where:** faces, bones, good feeling

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wrongs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:6122`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:84:17
# text = They drank deeply, and threw in each other's faces the bones that were left, which was looked upon as a sign of good feeling amongst them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl:relcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | wrongs *= wrong* |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | past | wrongs *= wrong* *not said here* | each's faces |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past · passive |  | the bones |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **look upon** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as a sign of good feeling amongst wrongs | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 5 | **sign** |  |  | good feeling amongst wrongs |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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