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title: At the same moment the bell sounded deep in the wood, so clear and s… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same moment the bell sounded deep in the wood, so clear and solemnly that five or six determined to penetrate somewhat further. 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 27

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At the same moment the bell sounded deep in the wood, so clear and solemnly that five or six determined to penetrate somewhat further.

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**Who acts:** bell · **What happens:** sound, penetrate · **To what, where:** wood

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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:pg1597:18:27
# text = At the same moment the bell sounded deep in the wood, so clear and solemnly that five or six determined to penetrate somewhat further.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	further	further	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | the bell |  |  | the wood | moment | deep *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 2 | **penetrate** | to-infinitive | the bell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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