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title: And the horn sounded faint and more faintly, and the convent bell dr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the horn sounded faint and more faintly, and the convent bell drowned its expiring echoes." Who acts: horn, convent bell. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 8

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And the horn sounded faint and more faintly, and the convent bell drowned its expiring echoes."

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**Who acts:** horn, convent bell · **What happens:** sound, drown, expire · **To what, where:** expiring echoes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horn, convent bell), 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:pg27200:113:8
# text = And the horn sounded faint and more faintly, and the convent bell drowned its expiring echoes."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	faintly	faintly	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	expiring	expire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | the horn |  |  |  |  | faint *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drown** | past | the convent bell | horn's expiring echoes |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient |
| 3 | **expire** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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