--- title: Equally impossible would it have been to believe that the tones of t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Equally impossible would it have been to believe that the tones of the old bell still echoed in the heart of the boy from Marbach; or that one day they would ring out loud enough and strong enough to be heard all over the world. Who acts: hair, tones. 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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 (hair, tones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:129:39 # text = Equally impossible would it have been to believe that the tones of the old bell still echoed in the heart of the boy from Marbach; or that one day they would ring out loud enough and strong enough to be heard all over the world. 1 Equally equally ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 xcomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 echoed echo VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Marbach Marbach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 ring ring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 loud loud ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 enough enough ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 39 enough enough ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 advcl _ _ 43 all all ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 over over ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | would | hair | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **believe** | to-infinitive | hair *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **echo** | past | the tones of the old bell | | | the heart of the boy from Marbach | still | | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location | | 4 | **ring out** | would | tones *= tone* | | | | day | enough, loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | tones *= tone* *not said here* | | | the world | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | | 6 | **intonate** | | | the old bell | | | | | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/40/) - ↑ back to [(written For the Schiller Album)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/)