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title: "Tum-me-lum, tum-me-lum, tum-me-lum!" said the Fire-drum. " — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Tum-me-lum, tum-me-lum, tum-me-lum!" said the Fire-drum. " Who acts: Tum lum. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 141

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"Tum-me-lum, tum-me-lum, tum-me-lum!" said the Fire-drum. "

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**Who acts:** Tum lum · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Fire drum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tum lum), 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:pg27200:39:141
# text = "Tum-me-lum, tum-me-lum, tum-me-lum!" said the Fire-drum. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tum	tum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	lum	lum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tum	tum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	lum	lum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	tum	tum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	lum	lum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tum lum and tum and lum | the Fire drum |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent drum=Topic |

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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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