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title: “Thankee! thankee!” or “cranky! cranky!” sounded from all the furnit… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Thankee! thankee!” or “cranky! cranky!” sounded from all the furniture; there was so much of it, that each article stood in the other's way, to get a look at the little boy. Who acts: Thankee, article. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 35

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“Thankee! thankee!” or “cranky! cranky!” sounded from all the furniture; there was so much of it, that each article stood in the other's way, to get a look at the little boy.

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**Who acts:** Thankee, article · **What happens:** sound, be, stand, get · **To what, where:** furniture, way, look

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thankee, article), 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:pg1597:19:35
# text = “Thankee! thankee!” or “cranky! cranky!” sounded from all the furniture; there was so much of it, that each article stood in the other's way, to get a look at the little boy.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thankee	thankee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	thankee	thankee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cranky	cranky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	cranky	cranky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | Thankee and thankee |  |  | all furniture |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Thankee and thankee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of furniture; much *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | each article |  |  | the other's way |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | each article *not said here* | a look |  |  |  | at the little boy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at boy=Asset |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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