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title: Little bells were hung all round it; and when the pot was boiling, t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Little bells were hung all round it; and when the pot was boiling, these bells tinkled in the most charming manner, and played the old melody, Who acts: pot. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 37

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Little bells were hung all round it; and when the pot was boiling, these bells tinkled in the most charming manner, and played the old melody,

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**Who acts:** pot · **What happens:** hang, boil, tinkle, charm, play · **To what, where:** Little bells, bells, charming manner, old melody

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot), 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:pg1597:3:37
# text = Little bells were hung all round it; and when the pot was boiling, these bells tinkled in the most charming manner, and played the old melody,
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
18	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · passive |  | Little bells |  |  |  | round pot; this bells *obl* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **boil** | past · progressive | the pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tinkle** | participle |  | this bells *not said here* |  | the charming manner |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |
| 4 | **charm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **play** | past |  | the old melody |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melody=Theme |

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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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