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title: It sounds like a wail--it sounds like a sentence of wrath and condem… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It sounds like a wail--it sounds like a sentence of wrath and condemnation, that must be heard far over the land, carried by the wind--sung by the wind--the wail that sometimes is silent, but never dies; for ever again it rises in song, singing even into our own time this legend of the Bishop of Bor
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 114

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It sounds like a wail--it sounds like a sentence of wrath and condemnation, that must be heard far over the land, carried by the wind--sung by the wind--the wail that sometimes is silent, but never dies; for ever again it rises in song, singing even into our own time this legend of the Bishop of Borglum and his hard nephew.

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**Who acts:** incense, wail · **What happens:** sound, hear, carry, sing, be, not die · **To what, where:** that, song, wrath

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incense, wail), 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:pg27200:12:114
# text = It sounds like a wail--it sounds like a sentence of wrath and condemnation, that must be heard far over the land, carried by the wind--sung by the wind--the wail that sometimes is silent, but never dies; for ever again it rises in song, singing even into our own time this legend of the Bishop of Borglum and his hard nephew.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	condemnation	condemnation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
39	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	41	advmod	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	49	advmod	_	_
49	again	again	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
56	even	even	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
57	into	into	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
59	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
61	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	62	det	_	_
62	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	Borglum	Borglum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	nmod	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
69	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	71	nmod:poss	_	_
70	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | incense |  |  |  |  | like a wail | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sound** | present | incense |  |  |  |  | like a sentence of wrath and condemnation | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hear** | must · passive |  | that |  |  |  | far *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **carry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the wind | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the wind | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=Location |
| 6 | **is** | present | the wail |  |  |  |  | silent, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **die** | present | incense *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **rise** | present | incense |  |  | song |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in song=Location |
| 9 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | incense *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **sentence** |  |  | wrath and condemnation |  |  |  |  | nom sentence «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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