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title: Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Polly, and repeated his witty saying, "Now let… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Polly, and repeated his witty saying, "Now let us be men." Who acts: ha. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 138

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Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Polly, and repeated his witty saying, "Now let us be men."

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**Who acts:** ha · **What happens:** laugh, repeat, let, be, say · **To what, where:** Polly, witty saying, us, men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ha), 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:pg27200:44:138
# text = Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Polly, and repeated his witty saying, "Now let us be men."
1	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
3	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ha	ha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Polly	Polly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	witty	witty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** *in a quote* | past | ha | Polly |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polly=Theme |
| 2 | **repeat** *in a quote* | past | ha *not said here* | ha's witty saying |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saying=Eventuality |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | ha *not said here* | us |  |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive |  | men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *in a quote* |  | ha |  |  |  |  |  | nom saying «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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