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title: The old bell was, after a time, carried away to a greater distance t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old bell was, after a time, carried away to a greater distance than any one, even the warder in the bell tower, ever imagined; and the bell in the breast of the young man was heard in countries where his feet had never wandered. Who acts: old bell, time. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christ
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 58

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The old bell was, after a time, carried away to a greater distance than any one, even the warder in the bell tower, ever imagined; and the bell in the breast of the young man was heard in countries where his feet had never wandered.

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**Who acts:** old bell, time · **What happens:** be, carry away, imagine, hear, not wander · **To what, where:** bell tower, bell, breast, feet

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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, time), 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:pg27200:129:58
# text = The old bell was, after a time, carried away to a greater distance than any one, even the warder in the bell tower, ever imagined; and the bell in the breast of the young man was heard in countries where his feet had never wandered.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	warder	warder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
45	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	50	advmod	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	wandered	wander	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | past | the old bell |  |  |  | after a time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry away** | past | a time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a greater distance; than any one; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to distance=Destination |
| 3 | **imagine** | participle |  | the bell tower *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the bell |  | the breast |  | of the young man; in countries | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **wander** | past · perfect · passive |  | man's feet |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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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