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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 37

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Yes, everybody was unanimous on the subject, except one, who said that the bell was too small and too fine to be heard at so great a distance, and besides it was very different tones to those that could move a human heart in such a manner.

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**Who acts:** everybody, bell, different tones · **What happens:** be, say, hear, move · **To what, where:** subject, human heart, manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (everybody, bell, different tones), 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:pg1597:18:37
# text = Yes, everybody was unanimous on the subject, except one, who said that the bell was too small and too fine to be heard at so great a distance, and besides it was very different tones to those that could move a human heart in such a manner.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	unanimous	unanimous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	except	except	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	nmod	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl:relcl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	51	det:predet	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | everybody |  |  | the subject |  | except one; unanimous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the bell |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the bell *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | the bell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 6 | **is** | past | Bell |  |  |  |  | besides different tones; to those | tree rules |
| 7 | **move** | could | different tones | a human heart |  | such manner |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |

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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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