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title: It was as if the tones came from a church in the still forest; peopl… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was as if the tones came from a church in the still forest; people looked thitherward, and felt their minds attuned most solemnly. Who acts: sound, people, minds. 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 5

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It was as if the tones came from a church in the still forest; people looked thitherward, and felt their minds attuned most solemnly.

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**Who acts:** sound, people, minds · **What happens:** be, look, feel, attune, mind · **To what, where:** church

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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 (sound, people, minds), 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:pg1597:18:5
# text = It was as if the tones came from a church in the still forest; people looked thitherward, and felt their minds attuned most solemnly.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	thitherward	thitherward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	attuned	attune	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sound |  |  | a church |  | in the forest; come *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past | people |  |  |  |  | thitherward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feel** | past | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **attune** | past | People's minds |  |  |  |  | solemnly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mind** |  | People |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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