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title: He thought the bell sounded from the depths of these still lakes; bu… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought the bell sounded from the depths of these still lakes; but then he remarked again that the tone proceeded not from there, but farther off, from out the depths of the forest. Who acts: son, bell, tone. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 57

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He thought the bell sounded from the depths of these still lakes; but then he remarked again that the tone proceeded not from there, but farther off, from out the depths of the forest.

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**Who acts:** son, bell, tone · **What happens:** think, sound, remark, not proceed · **To what, where:** depths · **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 (son, bell, tone), 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:pg1597:18:57
# text = He thought the bell sounded from the depths of these still lakes; but then he remarked again that the tone proceeded not from there, but farther off, from out the depths of the forest.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	_
29	off	off	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | past | the bell |  |  | the depths of this lakes |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | son |  |  |  | then; again |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **proceed** | past | the tone |  |  |  |  |  | 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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