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title: I will go to the wars!" cried the tin soldier as loud as he could, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I will go to the wars!" cried the tin soldier as loud as he could, and threw himself down on the floor. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 104

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I will go to the wars!" cried the tin soldier as loud as he could, and threw himself down on the floor.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, cry, throw down · **To what, where:** tin soldier, man, floor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:131:104
# text = I will go to the wars!" cried the tin soldier as loud as he could, and threw himself down on the floor.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  |  | to the wars | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | the tin soldier |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic |
| 3 | **throw down** *in a quote* | past |  | man |  | the floor |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on floor=Destination |

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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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