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title: “Kickery-ki! kluk! kluk! kluk!”--that was an old hen who came creepi… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Kickery-ki! kluk! kluk! kluk!”--that was an old hen who came creeping along, and she was from Kjoge. Who acts: that, old hen, book. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 17

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“Kickery-ki! kluk! kluk! kluk!”--that was an old hen who came creeping along, and she was from Kjoge.

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**Who acts:** that, old hen, book · **What happens:** be, come, creep · **To what, where:** old hen, Kjoge

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, old hen, book), 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:pg1597:25:17
# text = “Kickery-ki! kluk! kluk! kluk!”--that was an old hen who came creeping along, and she was from Kjoge.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kickery	kickery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ki	ki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	kluk	kluk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	kluk	kluk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	kluk	kluk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	along	along	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that | a old hen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | a old hen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **creep** | gerund | a old hen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | book |  |  | Kjoge |  |  | tree rules |

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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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