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title: The street boys were screaming and hooting, and shouting and shootin… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The street boys were screaming and hooting, and shouting and shooting, with devils and detonating balls--and there came corpse bearers and hood wearers--for there were funerals with psalm and hymn--and then the din of carriages driving and company arriving: yes, it was, in truth, lively enough down 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 10

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The street boys were screaming and hooting, and shouting and shooting, with devils and detonating balls--and there came corpse bearers and hood wearers--for there were funerals with psalm and hymn--and then the din of carriages driving and company arriving: yes, it was, in truth, lively enough down in the street.

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**Who acts:** street boys, funerals, carriages, company · **What happens:** scream, hoot, detonate, come, be, drive · **To what, where:** shouting, balls, corpse bearers, company, truth

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (street boys, funerals, carriages, company), 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:pg1597:23:10
# text = The street boys were screaming and hooting, and shouting and shooting, with devils and detonating balls--and there came corpse bearers and hood wearers--for there were funerals with psalm and hymn--and then the din of carriages driving and company arriving: yes, it was, in truth, lively enough down in the street.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hooting	hoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	detonating	detonate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
18	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bearers	bearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	wearers	wearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
31	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl	_	_
32	funerals	funeral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	psalm	psalm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	acl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	_
49	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	55	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
58	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	down	down	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the street boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hoot** | gerund | the street boys *not said here* | shouting and shooting and devils |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shouting=Theme |
| 3 | **detonate** | gerund | the street boys *not said here* | balls |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ball=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | the street boys *not said here* | corpse bearers and hood wearers |  | there |  | the din of carriages *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bearer=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | past | funerals with psalm and hymn | corpse bearers and hood wearers *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bearer=Theme |
| 6 | **drive** | gerund | carriages *not said here* | company |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme company=Trajectory |
| 7 | **arrive** | gerund | company *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | company |  |  | truth |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **din** |  | carriages |  |  |  |  |  | nom din «event intransitive»: of=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:** «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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