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title: Blow thy brazen trumpet, thou trumpeter clad in fox-skin! it sounds… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Blow thy brazen trumpet, thou trumpeter clad in fox-skin! it sounds merrily in the clear air. Who acts: you, thou, trumpeter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 76

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Blow thy brazen trumpet, thou trumpeter clad in fox-skin! it sounds merrily in the clear air.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, trumpeter · **What happens:** blow, clad, sound · **To what, where:** brazen trumpet, fox skin, clear air

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, trumpeter), 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:pg27200:12:76
# text = Blow thy brazen trumpet, thou trumpeter clad in fox-skin! it sounds merrily in the clear air.
1	Blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
7	trumpeter	trumpeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	clad	clad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
16	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy brazen trumpet |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient |
| 2 | **clad** | past | thou |  |  | fox skin |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sound** | present | trumpeter |  |  | the clear air |  | merrily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |

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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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