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title: Ha! ha! ha!” screamed Polly, and added his stereotype witticism. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ha! ha! ha!” screamed Polly, and added his stereotype witticism. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 30

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Ha! ha! ha!” screamed Polly, and added his stereotype witticism.

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**What happens:** scream, add · **To what, where:** Polly, stereotype witticism

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg1597:9:30
# text = Ha! ha! ha!” screamed Polly, and added his stereotype witticism.
1	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
5	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
8	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Polly	Polly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	stereotype	stereotype	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	witticism	witticism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | Polly |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polly=Topic |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | Polly's stereotype witticism |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witticism=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:** «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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