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title: "Look out for the drumsticks," replied Peter; and, small as he was,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Look out for the drumsticks," replied Peter; and, small as he was, he ran up boldly, and gave the foremost such a punch in the body with his fist, that the fellow lost his legs and tumbled over, and the others took their legs off with themselves very rapidly. Who acts: Peter, Drum, fellow, others. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 38

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"Look out for the drumsticks," replied Peter; and, small as he was, he ran up boldly, and gave the foremost such a punch in the body with his fist, that the fellow lost his legs and tumbled over, and the others took their legs off with themselves very rapidly.

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**Who acts:** Peter, Drum, fellow, others · **What happens:** look out, reply, be, run up, give, lose · **To what, where:** foremost punch, body, legs · **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 (Peter, Drum, fellow, others), 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:pg27200:39:38
# text = "Look out for the drumsticks," replied Peter; and, small as he was, he ran up boldly, and gave the foremost such a punch in the body with his fist, that the fellow lost his legs and tumbled over, and the others took their legs off with themselves very rapidly.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	drumsticks	drumstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	foremost	foremost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	punch	punch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	conj	_	_
46	over	over	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
51	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
54	off	off	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	51	obl	_	_
57	very	very	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for the drumsticks | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for drumstick=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | past | Drum |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run up** | past | Drum |  |  |  |  | boldly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past | Drum *not said here* | the foremost punch |  | the body |  | with Drum's fist | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punch=Theme |
| 6 | **lose** | past | the fellow | Drum's legs |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality |
| 7 | **tumble over** | participle | the fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **take off** | past | the others | others's legs |  |  |  | with others *= other*; off, rapidly *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |

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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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