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title: But the schoolmaster says that there was not any bell that rung down… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the schoolmaster says that there was not any bell that rung down there, for that it could not do so; and that no Au-mann dwelt yonder, for there was no Au-mann at all! Who acts: schoolmaster, bell, Au mann. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 52

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But the schoolmaster says that there was not any bell that rung down there, for that it could not do so; and that no Au-mann dwelt yonder, for there was no Au-mann at all!

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**Who acts:** schoolmaster, bell, Au mann · **What happens:** say, not be, ring, not do, dwell, be · **To what, where:** bell, Au mann, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (schoolmaster, bell, Au mann), 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:pg27200:10:52
# text = But the schoolmaster says that there was not any bell that rung down there, for that it could not do so; and that no Au-mann dwelt yonder, for there was no Au-mann at all!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rung	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
27	Au	Au	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	mann	Mann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
37	Au	Au	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	mann	Mann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the schoolmaster |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past |  | any bell |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ring** | past | any bell |  |  | there |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **do** | could | schoolmaster |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dwell** | past | no Au mann |  |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | no Au mann |  | all |  |  | tree rules |

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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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