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title: "Celebrity is always something!" said the drummer; and so he scratch… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Celebrity is always something!" said the drummer; and so he scratched his own name there, and his little son's name likewise. Who acts: Celebrity, something, drummer, little son. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 20

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"Celebrity is always something!" said the drummer; and so he scratched his own name there, and his little son's name likewise.

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**Who acts:** Celebrity, something, drummer, little son · **What happens:** be, say, scratch, name · **To what, where:** something, drummer, own name · **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 (Celebrity, something, drummer, little son), 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:pg27200:39:20
# text = "Celebrity is always something!" said the drummer; and so he scratched his own name there, and his little son's name likewise.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Celebrity	celebrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	drummer	drummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
27	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Celebrity | something |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | something | the drummer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent drummer=Topic |
| 3 | **scratch** | past | drummer | drummer's own name |  | there |  | drummer's little son's name *obl*; likewise *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  | drummer |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | drummer's little son |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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