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title: ‘Ho! ho! my little fellow, what are you doing there?’ asked Hans, an… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ho! ho! my little fellow, what are you doing there?’ asked Hans, and, without waiting for an answer, gave him a kick which sent him flying down the stairs. Who acts: you, Ho ho, kick, fellow. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 24

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‘Ho! ho! my little fellow, what are you doing there?’ asked Hans, and, without waiting for an answer, gave him a kick which sent him flying down the stairs.

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**Who acts:** you, Ho ho, kick, fellow · **What happens:** do, ask, wait, give, send, fly · **To what, where:** little fellow, Hans, kick, fellow, stairs

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ho ho, kick, fellow), 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:pg641:33:24
# text = ‘Ho! ho! my little fellow, what are you doing there?’ asked Hans, and, without waiting for an answer, gave him a kick which sent him flying down the stairs.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ho	ho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
28	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
36	down	down	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · progressive | you | my little fellow |  | there |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Ho ho |  | Hans |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent han=Recipient |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a answer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | Ho ho *not said here* | a kick | fellow |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kick=Theme |
| 5 | **send** | past | a kick | fellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fly** | gerund | fellow *not said here* |  |  | the stairs |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stair=Trajectory |

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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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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