--- title: They ran towards each other, and stood together hand in hand in the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They ran towards each other, and stood together hand in hand in the vast church of nature and of poetry, while over them sounded the invisible holy bell: blessed spirits floated around them, and lifted up their voices in a rejoicing hallelujah! Who acts: stars. 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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 (stars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:18:69 # text = They ran towards each other, and stood together hand in hand in the vast church of nature and of poetry, while over them sounded the invisible holy bell: blessed spirits floated around them, and lifted up their voices in a rejoicing hallelujah! 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 towards towards ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 2 obl _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 poetry poetry NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 26 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 32 blessed blessed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 appos _ _ 34 floated float VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 around around ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 rejoicing rejoice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 amod _ _ 46 hallelujah hallelujah NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | stars *= star* | | | each | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards each=Destination | | 2 | **stand together** | past | stars *= star* *not said here* | hand | | hand | | in the vast church of nature and poetry; together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location | | 3 | **sound** | past | | the invisible holy bell | | | | over stars *= star* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | | 4 | **float** | participle | | blessed spirits *not said here* | | | | around stars *= star* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Trajectory | | 5 | **lift up** | past | stars *= star* *not said here* | stars's voices | | a rejoicing hallelujah | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme in hallelujah=Destination | | 6 | **rejoice** | gerund | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/68/) - next →: [The Old House, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/19/1/) - ↑ back to [The Bell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/)