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title: And he beat a thundering roll-call on the instrument, and the Drum f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And he beat a thundering roll-call on the instrument, and the Drum felt so highly honored that the parchment burst with exultation. Who acts: father, Drum. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 184

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And he beat a thundering roll-call on the instrument, and the Drum felt so highly honored that the parchment burst with exultation.

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**Who acts:** father, Drum · **What happens:** beat, feel, honor · **To what, where:** thundering roll call

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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 (father, Drum), 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:pg27200:39:184
# text = And he beat a thundering roll-call on the instrument, and the Drum felt so highly honored that the parchment burst with exultation.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	thundering	thundering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	honored	honor	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	parchment	parchment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	burst	burst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	exultation	exultation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past | father | a thundering roll call |  |  |  | on the instrument | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent call=Instrument on instrument=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | past | the Drum |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **honor** | past | the Drum *not said here* |  |  |  |  | highly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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