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title: In the country the violin sounded in the room of the peasant; the ne… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the country the violin sounded in the room of the peasant; the newly-baked cakes were attacked; even the poorest child said, “It is really delightful here in winter!” Who acts: violin, poorest child. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its dependency tree
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 128

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In the country the violin sounded in the room of the peasant; the newly-baked cakes were attacked; even the poorest child said, “It is really delightful here in winter!”

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**Who acts:** violin, poorest child · **What happens:** sound, bake, attack, say, be · **To what, where:** country, baked cakes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (violin, poorest child), 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:pg1597:17:128
# text = In the country the violin sounded in the room of the peasant; the newly-baked cakes were attacked; even the poorest child said, “It is really delightful here in winter!”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	violin	violin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	poorest	poor	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	really	really	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	_
33	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | the violin |  |  | the country |  | in the room of the peasant | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 2 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **attack** | past · passive |  | the baked cakes |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the poorest child |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | violin |  |  | here | winter | delightful *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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