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title: Down in the Au-mann's haunt it sounds and rings, so that the tones s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Down in the Au-mann's haunt it sounds and rings, so that the tones sometimes pierce upward through the waters; and many people maintain that its strains forebode the death of some one; but that is not true, for the Bell is only talking with the Au-mann, who is now no longer alone. Who acts: haunt, t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 14

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Down in the Au-mann's haunt it sounds and rings, so that the tones sometimes pierce upward through the waters; and many people maintain that its strains forebode the death of some one; but that is not true, for the Bell is only talking with the Au-mann, who is now no longer alone.

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**Who acts:** haunt, tones, many people, strains, that, Au · **What happens:** sound, ring, pierce, maintain, forebode, not be · **To what, where:** death

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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 (haunt, tones, many people, strains), 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:pg27200:10:14
# text = Down in the Au-mann's haunt it sounds and rings, so that the tones sometimes pierce upward through the waters; and many people maintain that its strains forebode the death of some one; but that is not true, for the Bell is only talking with the Au-mann, who is now no longer alone.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Au	Au	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	mann	Mann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	haunt	haunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	pierce	pierce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	maintain	maintain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	strains	strain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	forebode	forebode	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	only	only	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Au	Au	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	mann	Mann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
57	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
58	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
59	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	62	advmod	_	_
60	no	no	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	62	advmod	_	_
62	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | the Au mann's haunt |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ring** | present | the Au mann's haunt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pierce** | present | the tones |  |  |  |  | through the waters; sometimes, upward *property* | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through water=Patient |
| 4 | **maintain** | present | many people |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **forebode** | present | haunt's strains | the death of some one |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot death=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **talk** | present · progressive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Bell; with the Au and mann | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with au=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **is** | present | the Au and mann |  |  |  | now | alone, long *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **strain** |  | haunt |  |  |  |  |  | nom strain «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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