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title: Row, dow, dow! how they can stamp and strut! — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Row, dow, dow! how they can stamp and strut! Who acts: boots. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 21

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Row, dow, dow! how they can stamp and strut!

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**Who acts:** boots · **What happens:** stamp, strut

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boots), 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:pg27200:127:21
# text = Row, dow, dow! how they can stamp and strut!
1	Row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dow	dow	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dow	dow	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stamp	stamp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	strut	strut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | can | boots *= boot* |  |  |  |  | dow *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strut** | infinitive | boots *= boot* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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