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title: And the organ pealed, and the children's voices in the choir sounded… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the organ pealed, and the children's voices in the choir sounded so sweet and soft! Who acts: organ, voices. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 99

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And the organ pealed, and the children's voices in the choir sounded so sweet and soft!

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**Who acts:** organ, voices · **What happens:** peal, sound

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (organ, voices), 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:pg1597:27:99
# text = And the organ pealed, and the children's voices in the choir sounded so sweet and soft!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pealed	peal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	choir	choir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peal** | past | the organ |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | past | the children's voices in the choir |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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