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title: In reality the bell does not exist; it is only a fancy that people h… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In reality the bell does not exist; it is only a fancy that people have taken into their heads!” Who acts: bell. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 26

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In reality the bell does not exist; it is only a fancy that people have taken into their heads!”

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**Who acts:** bell · **What happens:** not exist, be, take · **To what, where:** reality, fancy, heads

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bell), 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:pg1597:18:26
# text = In reality the bell does not exist; it is only a fancy that people have taken into their heads!”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **exist** | present · do-support | the bell |  |  | reality |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reality=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Bell | a fancy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | present · perfect · passive |  | a fancy |  | People's heads |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into head=Destination |

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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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