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title: The full cask of mead soon became empty, and a fresh one was brought… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The full cask of mead soon became empty, and a fresh one was brought in; for these were people who liked plenty to eat and drink. Who acts: full cask, people. 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 28

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The full cask of mead soon became empty, and a fresh one was brought in; for these were people who liked plenty to eat and drink.

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**Who acts:** full cask, people · **What happens:** become, bring in, be, like, eat, drink · **To what, where:** fresh one, plenty

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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 (full cask, people), 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:pg27200:84:28
# text = The full cask of mead soon became empty, and a fresh one was brought in; for these were people who liked plenty to eat and drink.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	xcomp	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the full cask of mead |  |  |  |  | empty, soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bring in** | past · passive |  | a fresh one |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | past | the full cask of mead *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for this people | tree rules |
| 4 | **like** | past | this people | plenty |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plenty=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | this people *not said here* | plenty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **drink** | infinitive | this people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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