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title: "But it was too much for me to hear and to know; I was not able any… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But it was too much for me to hear and to know; I was not able any longer to ring it out. Who acts: air, crows. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 47

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"But it was too much for me to hear and to know; I was not able any longer to ring it out.

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**Who acts:** air, crows · **What happens:** be, hear, know, not be, ring out · **To what, where:** air

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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 (air, crows), 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:pg27200:10:47
# text = "But it was too much for me to hear and to know; I was not able any longer to ring it out.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
19	any	any	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | air |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | crows *= crow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | crows *= crow* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | crows *= crow* |  |  |  |  | able, long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **ring out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | crows *= crow* *not said here* | air |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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:** «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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