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title: Beautiful flowers, round which little bells were tied, stood in the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Beautiful flowers, round which little bells were tied, stood in the corridors: what with the running to and fro and the draught, these bells tinkled so loudly that no one could speak to be heard. Who acts: Beautiful flowers, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 59

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Beautiful flowers, round which little bells were tied, stood in the corridors: what with the running to and fro and the draught, these bells tinkled so loudly that no one could speak to be heard.

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**Who acts:** Beautiful flowers, one · **What happens:** tie, stand, fro, tinkle, speak, hear · **To what, where:** little bells, corridors, bells · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beautiful flowers, one), 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:pg27200:125:59
# text = Beautiful flowers, round which little bells were tied, stood in the corridors: what with the running to and fro and the draught, these bells tinkled so loudly that no one could speak to be heard.
1	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	running	running	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
29	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past · passive |  | little bells |  |  |  | round Beautiful flowers | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Beautiful flowers |  |  | the corridors |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corridor=Location |
| 3 | **fro** | infinitive | Beautiful flowers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tinkle** | participle |  | this bells *not said here* |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | no one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |

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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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