--- title: How he did gnash his teeth and cry out to the bits of wood and straw… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: How he did gnash his teeth and cry out to the bits of wood and straw, "Stop him, stop him; he has not paid toll, and has not shown his pass." Who acts: musket. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Brave Tin Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/) / 47 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 47 How he did gnash his teeth and cry out to the bits of wood and straw, "Stop him, stop him; he has not paid toll, and has not shown his pass." **Who acts:** musket · **What happens:** gnash, cry out, stop, not pay, not show, pass · **To what, where:** teeth, bits, musket, pass · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (musket), 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:pg27200:192:47 # text = How he did gnash his teeth and cry out to the bits of wood and straw, "Stop him, stop him; he has not paid toll, and has not shown his pass." 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 gnash gnash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 9 out out ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 29 toll toll NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 pass pass NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gnash** | past · do-support | musket | musket's teeth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | infinitive | musket *not said here* | | the bits of wood and straw | | | out *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bit=Recipient | | 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | musket *not said here* | musket | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | | 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | musket *not said here* | musket | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **pay** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | musket | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient toll=Asset | | 6 | **not** **show** *in a quote* | present · perfect | | musket's pass | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pass=Recipient | | 7 | **pass** *in a quote* | | musket | | | | | | nom pass «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/48/) - ↑ back to [The Brave Tin Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/)