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title: This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his hu… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his humble dress, for the bell sounded with so deep a tone, and with such strange power, that proceed he must. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 42

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This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his humble dress, for the bell sounded with so deep a tone, and with such strange power, that proceed he must.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** do, go on, sound, proceed · **To what, where:** This, wooden shoes

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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 (that), 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:pg1597:18:42
# text = This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his humble dress, for the bell sounded with so deep a tone, and with such strange power, that proceed he must.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	proceed	proceed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go on** | past · progressive |  |  |  | wooden shoes and son's humble dress | now |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shoe=Location |
| 3 | **sound** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the bell; deep *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **proceed** | present | that |  |  |  |  | with such strange power | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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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