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title: They are addressed in the language of their country, and the piano s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They are addressed in the language of their country, and the piano sounds for them with melodies of their native land; and before these have died away, the chord has been struck, the wire of thought that reaches to the land of the sufferers announces that they are rescued. Who acts: piano, these, th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 132

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They are addressed in the language of their country, and the piano sounds for them with melodies of their native land; and before these have died away, the chord has been struck, the wire of thought that reaches to the land of the sufferers announces that they are rescued.

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**Who acts:** piano, these, thought · **What happens:** address, sound, die away, strike, reach, announce · **To what, where:** rooms, language, chord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (piano, these, thought), 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:pg27200:12:132
# text = They are addressed in the language of their country, and the piano sounds for them with melodies of their native land; and before these have died away, the chord has been struck, the wire of thought that reaches to the land of the sufferers announces that they are rescued.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	chord	chord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	sufferers	sufferer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
49	announces	announce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	rescued	rescue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | present · passive |  | rooms *= room* |  | the language of rooms's country |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **sound** | present | the piano |  |  |  |  | for rooms *= room*; with melodies of rooms's native land | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with melody=Theme |
| 3 | **die away** | present · perfect | these |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **strike** | present · perfect · passive |  | the chord |  |  |  | the wire of thought *obl* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **reach** | present | thought |  |  |  |  | to the land of the sufferers | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **announce** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **rescue** | present · passive |  | rooms *= room* |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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