---
title: "Dullard!" they cried, "that is only an old wooden shoe, and the upp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dullard!" they cried, "that is only an old wooden shoe, and the upper part is missing into the bargain; are you going to give that also to the Princess?" Who acts: Dullard, that, upper part, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, with 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/44/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [An Old Story Told Anew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/) / 44

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 44

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Dullard!" they cried, "that is only an old wooden shoe, and the upper part is missing into the bargain; are you going to give that also to the Princess?"

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Dullard, that, upper part, you · **What happens:** cry, be, miss, go, give · **To what, where:** old wooden shoe, bargain, that, Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullard, that, upper part, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:28:44
# text = "Dullard!" they cried, "that is only an old wooden shoe, and the upper part is missing into the bargain; are you going to give that also to the Princess?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dullard	Dullard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	obj	_	_
33	also	also	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Dullard |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | a old wooden shoe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **miss** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the upper part |  |  | the bargain |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | that | the Princess |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to princess=Recipient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/43/)
- next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/45/)
- ↑ back to [An Old Story Told Anew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/)