--- title: Listen, what a drumming there is on the burdock-leaves; turn, turn,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Listen, what a drumming there is on the burdock-leaves; turn, turn, turn; turn, turn, turn," said the father-snail. Who acts: drumming. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Happy Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/) / 17 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 17 Listen, what a drumming there is on the burdock-leaves; turn, turn, turn; turn, turn, turn," said the father-snail. **Who acts:** drumming · **What happens:** listen, be, turn, say · **To what, where:** burdock leaves, father snail · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drumming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:48:17 # text = Listen, what a drumming there is on the burdock-leaves; turn, turn, turn; turn, turn, turn," said the father-snail. 1 Listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 1 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 drumming drumming NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 burdock burdock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **be** | present | a drumming | | | the burdock leaves; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location | | 3 | **turn** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **turn** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **turn** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **turn** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **turn** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | the father snail | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/18/) - ↑ back to [The Happy Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/)