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title: "Let it go farther," shrieked the bats, and the hens clucked and the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Let it go farther," shrieked the bats, and the hens clucked and the cocks crowed, "Let it go farther! Who acts: you, Sleep, hens, cocks. 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 45

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"Let it go farther," shrieked the bats, and the hens clucked and the cocks crowed, "Let it go farther!

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**Who acts:** you, Sleep, hens, cocks · **What happens:** let, go, shriek, cluck, crow · **To what, where:** Sleep, bats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Sleep, hens, cocks), 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:pg27200:126:45
# text = "Let it go farther," shrieked the bats, and the hens clucked and the cocks crowed, "Let it go farther!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	clucked	cluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cocks	cock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	crowed	crow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Sleep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shriek** | past | you *not said here* | the bats |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bat=Theme |
| 4 | **cluck** | past | the hens |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **crow** | past | the cocks |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | the cocks *not said here* | Sleep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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