--- title: "Into the tower came also the dapper man-servant of the bishop; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Into the tower came also the dapper man-servant of the bishop; and when I, the Bell, who am made of metal, rang hard and loud, and swung to and fro, I might have beaten out his brains. Who acts: Bell. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:10:26 # text = "Into the tower came also the dapper man-servant of the bishop; and when I, the Bell, who am made of metal, rang hard and loud, and swung to and fro, I might have beaten out his brains. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 also also ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 dapper dapper NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bishop bishop NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Bell Bell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 35 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 38 fro fro INTJ UH _ 43 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux _ _ 43 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 conj _ _ 44 out out ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past | | the dapper man servant of the bishop | | the tower | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tower=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present · passive | | the Bell | | | | of metal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **ring** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | hard *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **swing** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **beat out** *in a quote* | might · perfect | the Bell *= bell* | monk's brains | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brain=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/27/) - ↑ back to [The Bell-deep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/)