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title: "It was the City of the Dead; only Vesuvius thundered forth his ever… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "It was the City of the Dead; only Vesuvius thundered forth his everlasting hymn, each separate verse of which is called by men an eruption. Who acts: dog, City, men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 6

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"It was the City of the Dead; only Vesuvius thundered forth his everlasting hymn, each separate verse of which is called by men an eruption.

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**Who acts:** dog, City, men · **What happens:** be, thunder, call, hymn · **To what, where:** City, everlasting hymn, separate verse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, City, men), 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:pg27200:102:6
# text = "It was the City of the Dead; only Vesuvius thundered forth his everlasting hymn, each separate verse of which is called by men an eruption.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	Vesuvius	Vesuvius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thundered	thunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | dog | the City |  |  |  | of the Dead | tree rules |
| 2 | **thunder** *in a quote* | past | the City | city's everlasting hymn |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hymn=Theme |
| 3 | **call** *in a quote* | present · passive | men | each separate verse |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **hymn** *in a quote* |  | city |  |  |  |  |  | nom hymn «communication 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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