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title: "What a buzzing and a rumbling there is in the elfin hill," said one… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "What a buzzing and a rumbling there is in the elfin hill," said one of the lizards; "I have not been able to close my eyes for two nights on account of the noise; I might just as well have had the toothache, for that always keeps me awake." Who acts: buzzing, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 2

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"What a buzzing and a rumbling there is in the elfin hill," said one of the lizards; "I have not been able to close my eyes for two nights on account of the noise; I might just as well have had the toothache, for that always keeps me awake."

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**Who acts:** buzzing, I · **What happens:** be, say, not be, close, have, keep · **To what, where:** one, eyes, account, toothache, me, noise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buzzing, I), 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:pg27200:31:2
# text = "What a buzzing and a rumbling there is in the elfin hill," said one of the lizards; "I have not been able to close my eyes for two nights on account of the noise; I might just as well have had the toothache, for that always keeps me awake."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	elfin	elfin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
42	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
43	just	just	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
44	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	47	cc	_	_
45	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	fixed	_	_
46	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	parataxis	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	toothache	toothache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	obl	_	_
53	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	54	advmod	_	_
54	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
55	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | a buzzing and a rumbling |  |  | there |  | in the elfin hill | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in hill=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | one of the lizards |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **close** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my eyes |  | account of the noise | night |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | might · perfect | I | the toothache |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=Patient |
| 6 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  | for that; always, awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 7 | **account** *in a quote* |  |  | the noise |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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