---
title: The bell has a tone that is wondrous sweet; let us stroll thither, a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The bell has a tone that is wondrous sweet; let us stroll thither, and examine the matter nearer.” Who acts: bell, tone, us. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Bell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/) / 7

# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The bell has a tone that is wondrous sweet; let us stroll thither, and examine the matter nearer.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** bell, tone, us · **What happens:** have, be, let, stroll, examine · **To what, where:** tone, us, matter

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (bell, tone, us), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg1597:18:7
# text = The bell has a tone that is wondrous sweet; let us stroll thither, and examine the matter nearer.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	stroll	stroll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	examine	examine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the bell | a tone |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | a tone |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stroll** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **examine** | infinitive |  | the matter |  |  |  | near *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/6/)
- next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/8/)
- ↑ back to [The Bell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/)