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title: There were rascally boys of sixty years old--for years do not alone… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There were rascally boys of sixty years old--for years do not alone make a man--who raised a tumult, which might have made the Hearer laugh, but for the applause which followed, echoing through every street and house, and was even heard in country roads. Who acts: boys, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tal
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 106

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There were rascally boys of sixty years old--for years do not alone make a man--who raised a tumult, which might have made the Hearer laugh, but for the applause which followed, echoing through every street and house, and was even heard in country roads.

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**Who acts:** boys, man · **What happens:** be, not make, raise, make, follow, echo · **To what, where:** man, tumult, street, country roads

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, man), 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:pg27200:143:106
# text = There were rascally boys of sixty years old--for years do not alone make a man--who raised a tumult, which might have made the Hearer laugh, but for the applause which followed, echoing through every street and house, and was even heard in country roads.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rascally	rascally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Hearer	Hearer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	applause	applause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	echoing	echo	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
40	through	through	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
42	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
48	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | boys |  |  | there |  | rascally *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support |  | a man |  |  | year | alone *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product |
| 3 | **raise** | past | a man | a tumult |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tumult=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | might · perfect · passive |  | a tumult |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary laugh=Product |
| 5 | **follow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the applause | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for applause=Attribute |
| 6 | **echo** | gerund |  |  |  | every street and house |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Location |
| 7 | **hear** | past · passive | boys *not said here* |  |  | country roads |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |

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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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