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title: They had already been heard in the narrow space behind the school-wa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had already been heard in the narrow space behind the school-wall, even above the deafening sounds of "March! halt! front!" A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 40

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They had already been heard in the narrow space behind the school-wall, even above the deafening sounds of "March! halt! front!"

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**What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** tones, narrow space

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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: 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:pg27200:129:40
# text = They had already been heard in the narrow space behind the school-wall, even above the deafening sounds of "March! halt! front!"
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	deafening	deafening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	halt	halt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
27	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive |  | tones *= tone* |  | the narrow space behind the school wall and the deafening sounds of March halt |  | front *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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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