--- title: Then he gave a drummer twopence and a peacock's feather, and compose… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then he gave a drummer twopence and a peacock's feather, and composed a song for the drum, and the drummer beat it through the streets of the town, and when the people heard it they said, "That is a capital tune." Who acts: poet, drummer, people, That. 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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 (poet, drummer, people, That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:143:131 # text = Then he gave a drummer twopence and a peacock's feather, and composed a song for the drum, and the drummer beat it through the streets of the town, and when the people heard it they said, "That is a capital tune." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 drummer drummer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 twopence twopence NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 peacock peacock NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 composed compose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 drummer drummer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 through through ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 47 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 capital capital ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | poet | a drummer twopence and a peacock's feather | | | then | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twopence=Theme | | 2 | **compose** | past | poet *not said here* | a song | | | | for the drum | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent song=Result for drum=Beneficiary | | 3 | **beat** | present | the drummer | song | | the streets of the town | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | past | the people | song | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | a capital tune | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/130/) - next →: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/132/) - ↑ back to [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/)