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title: "Mr. de Boots, hearing this, kicks up, jingles his spurs, and knocks… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mr. de Boots, hearing this, kicks up, jingles his spurs, and knocks down three of the side-scenes." Who acts: MR.. 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 72

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"Mr. de Boots, hearing this, kicks up, jingles his spurs, and knocks down three of the side-scenes."

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**Who acts:** MR. · **What happens:** hear, kick up, jingle, knock down, spur · **To what, where:** this, Boots, spurs, three

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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 (MR.), 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:pg27200:127:72
# text = "Mr. de Boots, hearing this, kicks up, jingles his spurs, and knocks down three of the side-scenes."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
3	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Boots	Boot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	kicks	kick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	jingles	jingle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	knocks	knock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | gerund |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **kick up** *in a quote* | present |  | Boots  Mr. |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **jingle** *in a quote* | present |  | MR.'s spurs |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spur=Theme |
| 4 | **knock down** *in a quote* | present |  | three of the side scenes |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent three=Patient |
| 5 | **spur** *in a quote* |  | MR. |  |  |  |  |  | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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