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title: Yes, he was still boiling, until he boiled over in the exclamation,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, he was still boiling, until he boiled over in the exclamation, "Lunacy! porter! madness!" Who acts: sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 145

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Yes, he was still boiling, until he boiled over in the exclamation, "Lunacy! porter! madness!"

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** boil, boil over · **To what, where:** porter madness

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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:pg27200:147:145
# text = Yes, he was still boiling, until he boiled over in the exclamation, "Lunacy! porter! madness!"
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	boiled	boil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Lunacy	Lunacy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
21	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | past · progressive | sun |  |  |  | still |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **boil over** | past | sun | porter madness |  |  |  | over *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=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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