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title: "Ding-dong! ding-dong!" sounded the Bell, when the tower still stood… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ding-dong! ding-dong!" sounded the Bell, when the tower still stood there; and one evening, while the sun was setting, and the Bell was swinging away bravely, it broke loose and came flying down through the air, the brilliant metal shining in the ruddy beam. Who acts: Ding dong, tower, sun, Bell. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 10

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"Ding-dong! ding-dong!" sounded the Bell, when the tower still stood there; and one evening, while the sun was setting, and the Bell was swinging away bravely, it broke loose and came flying down through the air, the brilliant metal shining in the ruddy beam.

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**Who acts:** Ding dong, tower, sun, Bell, brilliant metal · **What happens:** sound, stand, set, swing away, break, come · **To what, where:** Bell, air, ruddy beam

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ding dong, tower, sun, Bell), 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:pg27200:10:10
# text = "Ding-dong! ding-dong!" sounded the Bell, when the tower still stood there; and one evening, while the sun was setting, and the Bell was swinging away bravely, it broke loose and came flying down through the air, the brilliant metal shining in the ruddy beam.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ding	ding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	dong	dong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
6	ding	ding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	dong	dong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
42	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
45	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	xcomp	_	_
46	down	down	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	through	through	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	_
54	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	acl	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | Ding dong | the Bell |  |  | evening |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the tower |  |  | there | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **swing away** | past · progressive | the Bell |  |  |  |  | away, bravely *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **break** | past | Bell |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **come** | past | Bell *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fly down** | gerund | Bell *not said here* |  |  | the air |  | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 8 | **shine** | gerund | the brilliant metal *not said here* |  |  | the ruddy beam |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beam=Location |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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