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title: How it sounded like the cry of the frogs on the moor, or like the cr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How it sounded like the cry of the frogs on the moor, or like the creaking of great boots when some one is marching,--always the same tone, so monotonous and wearing, that little Tuk at length fell fast asleep, and then the sound could not annoy him. Who acts: it, one, same tone, sound. A sentence o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 59

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How it sounded like the cry of the frogs on the moor, or like the creaking of great boots when some one is marching,--always the same tone, so monotonous and wearing, that little Tuk at length fell fast asleep, and then the sound could not annoy him.

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**Who acts:** it, one, same tone, sound, frogs · **What happens:** sound, creak, march, wear, fall, not annoy · **To what, where:** tone

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, one, same tone, sound), 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:pg27200:80:59
# text = How it sounded like the cry of the frogs on the moor, or like the creaking of great boots when some one is marching,--always the same tone, so monotonous and wearing, that little Tuk at length fell fast asleep, and then the sound could not annoy him.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	creaking	creak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	marching	march	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	monotonous	monotonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	nsubj	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
44	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
45	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
48	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
53	annoy	annoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | it |  |  |  |  | like the cry of the frogs on the moor | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **creak** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of great boots | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **march** | present · progressive | some one |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | gerund | the same tone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fall** | past | the same tone |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **annoy** | could | the sound | tone |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 7 | **cry** |  | the frogs on the moor |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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