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title: The cries and screams of the savage horde and of the birds sounded t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The cries and screams of the savage horde and of the birds sounded through the air, and I joined in it also; for I sang 'Ding-dong! ding-dong!' Who acts: cries, I, savage horde. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 44

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The cries and screams of the savage horde and of the birds sounded through the air, and I joined in it also; for I sang 'Ding-dong! ding-dong!'

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**Who acts:** cries, I, savage horde · **What happens:** sound, join, sing, cry · **To what, where:** air, Ding dong

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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 (cries, I, savage horde), 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:pg27200:10:44
# text = The cries and screams of the savage horde and of the birds sounded through the air, and I joined in it also; for I sang 'Ding-dong! ding-dong!'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	screams	scream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	horde	horde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Ding	ding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	dong	dong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
33	ding	ding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	dong	dong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | the cries of the savage horde and the birds and screams |  |  | the air |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 2 | **join** | past | I |  |  |  |  | in air | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | I | Ding dong |  |  |  | ding dong *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **cry** |  | the savage horde and the birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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