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title: In such sweet remembrance was the old bell cherished by the boy, who… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In such sweet remembrance was the old bell cherished by the boy, who grew up in poverty to be tall and slender, with a freckled complexion and hair almost red; but his eyes were clear and blue as the deep sea, and what was his career to be? Who acts: old bell, eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Han
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 33

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In such sweet remembrance was the old bell cherished by the boy, who grew up in poverty to be tall and slender, with a freckled complexion and hair almost red; but his eyes were clear and blue as the deep sea, and what was his career to be?

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**Who acts:** old bell, eyes · **What happens:** be, cherish, grow up, freckle · **To what, where:** old bell, such sweet remembrance, poverty, career

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old bell, eyes), 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:pg27200:129:33
# text = In such sweet remembrance was the old bell cherished by the boy, who grew up in poverty to be tall and slender, with a freckled complexion and hair almost red; but his eyes were clear and blue as the deep sea, and what was his career to be?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	cherished	cherish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	freckled	freckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	complexion	complexion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	50	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the old bell |  | such sweet remembrance |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cherish** | participle |  | the old bell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grow up** | past | the old bell |  |  | poverty |  | with a freckled complexion and hair | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poverty=Location |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | the old bell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the old bell *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **freckle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | boy's eyes |  |  |  |  | as the deep sea; clear *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | boy's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is a** | past |  | boy's career |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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