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title: From the deep wells, and perhaps from the prisons by the Bridge of S… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: From the deep wells, and perhaps from the prisons by the Bridge of Sighs, rise the accents of woe, as at the time when the tambourine was heard in the gay gondolas, and the golden ring was cast from the Bucentaur to Adria, the queen of the seas. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chri
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 20

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From the deep wells, and perhaps from the prisons by the Bridge of Sighs, rise the accents of woe, as at the time when the tambourine was heard in the gay gondolas, and the golden ring was cast from the Bucentaur to Adria, the queen of the seas.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** rise, hear, cast, accent · **To what, where:** accents, deep wells, tambourine, gay gondolas, golden ring, Bucentaur

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:108:20
# text = From the deep wells, and perhaps from the prisons by the Bridge of Sighs, rise the accents of woe, as at the time when the tambourine was heard in the gay gondolas, and the golden ring was cast from the Bucentaur to Adria, the queen of the seas.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wells	well	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prisons	prison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sighs	Sigh	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	tambourine	tambourine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	gondolas	gondola	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Bucentaur	Bucentaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Adria	Adria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | imperative | you *not said here* | the accents of woe |  | the deep wells and the prisons by the Bridge of Sighs | time |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient accent=Extent from well=Initial\_State |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the tambourine |  | the gay gondolas |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cast** | past · passive |  | the golden ring |  | the Bucentaur to Adria |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: subject=Product from bucentaur=Material |
| 4 | **accent** |  |  | woe |  |  |  |  | nom accent «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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