--- title: Tan-ta-ra-ra, tan-ta-ra-ra," sounded the horn, and the mail-coach ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Tan-ta-ra-ra, tan-ta-ra-ra," sounded the horn, and the mail-coach came lumbering up. Who acts: Tan, ra ra ra, mail coach. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/4/) [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 Mail-coach Passengers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/) / 4 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 4 Tan-ta-ra-ra, tan-ta-ra-ra," sounded the horn, and the mail-coach came lumbering up. **Who acts:** Tan, ra ra ra, mail coach · **What happens:** ra, sound, come, lumber up · **To what, where:** horn 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 (Tan, ra ra ra, mail coach), 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:pg27200:82:4 # text = Tan-ta-ra-ra, tan-ta-ra-ra," sounded the horn, and the mail-coach came lumbering up. 1 Tan Tan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ta ta NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ra ra NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ra ra NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 tan tan NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ta ta NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ra ra NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ra ra NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 mail mail NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 lumbering lumber VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ra** | | Tan | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** *in a quote* | past | ra ra ra | the horn | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Theme | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the mail coach | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lumber up** *in a quote* | gerund | the mail coach *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/5/) - ↑ back to [The Mail-coach Passengers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/)