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title: "MARCH, March," the fourth called after him, slapping him on the sho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "MARCH, March," the fourth called after him, slapping him on the shoulder, "don't you smell something? Who acts: fourth, you. 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 37

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"MARCH, March," the fourth called after him, slapping him on the shoulder, "don't you smell something?

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**Who acts:** fourth, you · **What happens:** call, slap, not smell · **To what, where:** fourth, man, something · **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 (fourth, you), 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:pg27200:82:37
# text = "MARCH, March," the fourth called after him, slapping him on the shoulder, "don't you smell something?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	MARCH	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	slapping	slap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: ask* | participle |  | the fourth *not said here* |  |  | after man |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slap** | gerund | the fourth *not said here* | man |  |  |  | on the shoulder | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on shoulder=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **smell** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |

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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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