--- title: And the children clapped their hands and cried, "Tell another, tell… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And the children clapped their hands and cried, "Tell another, tell another," for they wanted to hear the story of "Ivede-Avede;" but they only had "Humpty Dumpty." Who acts: children, story. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/90/) [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 Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/) / 90 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 90 And the children clapped their hands and cried, "Tell another, tell another," for they wanted to hear the story of "Ivede-Avede;" but they only had "Humpty Dumpty." **Who acts:** children, story · **What happens:** clap, cry, tell, want, hear, have · **To what, where:** hands, another, story, Humpty Dumpty · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, story), 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:pg27200:33:90 # text = And the children clapped their hands and cried, "Tell another, tell another," for they wanted to hear the story of "Ivede-Avede;" but they only had "Humpty Dumpty." 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 clapped clap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 12 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Ivede Ivede PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Avede Avede PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Humpty Humpty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Dumpty Dumpty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clap** | past | the children | children's hands | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the children *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | the children *not said here* | another | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent another=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | the children *not said here* | another | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent another=Recipient | | 5 | **want** | past | children *= child* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | the story of Ivede and Avede | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | | 7 | **have** | past | story | Humpty Dumpty | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dumpty=Patient | 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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/91/) - ↑ back to [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/)