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title: Too-whoo!" they both hooted into the neighbour's dove-cot to the dov… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Too-whoo!" they both hooted into the neighbour's dove-cot to the doves inside. " Who acts: children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 28

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Too-whoo!" they both hooted into the neighbour's dove-cot to the doves inside. "

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** hoot · **To what, where:** whoo, dove cot

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg27200:126:28
# text = Too-whoo!" they both hooted into the neighbour's dove-cot to the doves inside. "
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	whoo	whoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	both	both	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hooted	hoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	cot	cot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
19	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hoot** *in a quote* | past | children *= child* | whoo |  | the neighbour's dove cot |  | to the doves; both *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into cot=Recipient |

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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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