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title: "Fool!" thought the Fire-drum; but it only said, "Dub, dub, dub, rub… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Fool!" thought the Fire-drum; but it only said, "Dub, dub, dub, rub-a-dub!" Who acts: Fool, rub. 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 27

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"Fool!" thought the Fire-drum; but it only said, "Dub, dub, dub, rub-a-dub!"

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**Who acts:** Fool, rub · **What happens:** think, say, dub · **To what, where:** Fire drum, Dub · **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 (Fool, rub), 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:pg27200:39:27
# text = "Fool!" thought the Fire-drum; but it only said, "Dub, dub, dub, rub-a-dub!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	rub	rub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Fool | the Fire drum |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot drum=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Fool | Dub and dub and dub |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dub** *in a quote* |  | rub |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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