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title: "Certainly I may shout," retorted the man; "I'm Prince Carnival, tra… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Certainly I may shout," retorted the man; "I'm Prince Carnival, travelling under the name of FEBRUARY." Who acts: man, sentry. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 32

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"Certainly I may shout," retorted the man; "I'm Prince Carnival, travelling under the name of FEBRUARY."

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**Who acts:** man, sentry · **What happens:** shout, retort, be, travel, name · **To what, where:** Prince Carnival, name, FEBRUARY · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, sentry), 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:pg27200:82:32
# text = "Certainly I may shout," retorted the man; "I'm Prince Carnival, travelling under the name of FEBRUARY."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	retorted	retort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Carnival	Carnival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	FEBRUARY	FEBRUARY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | may | the man *= man* |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **retort** *speech: other* | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the sentry *= sentry* | Prince Carnival |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **travel** *in a quote* | gerund | the sentry *= sentry* *not said here* |  |  | the name of FEBRUARY |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under name=Trajectory |
| 5 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | FEBRUARY |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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