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title: Dark days and cold nights also passed over the old bell, and it noti… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Dark days and cold nights also passed over the old bell, and it noticed them not; but the bell in the man's heart felt it to be a gloomy time. Who acts: Dark days, fugitive, bell. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 56

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Dark days and cold nights also passed over the old bell, and it noticed them not; but the bell in the man's heart felt it to be a gloomy time.

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**Who acts:** Dark days, fugitive, bell · **What happens:** pass, not notice, feel, be · **To what, where:** old bell, bells, fugitive, gloomy time

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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 (Dark days, fugitive, bell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:8042`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:129:56
# text = Dark days and cold nights also passed over the old bell, and it noticed them not; but the bell in the man's heart felt it to be a gloomy time.
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Dark days and cold nights |  |  | the old bell |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over bell=Location |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | past | fugitive | bells *= bell* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feel** | past | the bell in the man's heart | fugitive |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | fugitive *not said here* | a gloomy time |  |  |  |  | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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