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title: The bust was cast in bronze, and part of the metal used for this pur… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bust was cast in bronze, and part of the metal used for this purpose was the old church bell, whose tones had died away from the memory of those at home and elsewhere. Who acts: part, tones. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 70

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The bust was cast in bronze, and part of the metal used for this purpose was the old church bell, whose tones had died away from the memory of those at home and elsewhere.

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**Who acts:** part, tones · **What happens:** cast, use, be, die away · **To what, where:** bust, bronze, metal, old church bell, memory

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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 (part, tones), 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:pg27200:129:70
# text = The bust was cast in bronze, and part of the metal used for this purpose was the old church bell, whose tones had died away from the memory of those at home and elsewhere.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bust	bust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	nmod	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **cast** | past · passive |  | the bust |  | bronze |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in bronze=Destination |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | the metal *not said here* |  |  |  | for this purpose | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | part of the metal | the old church bell |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die away** | past · perfect | tones |  |  | the memory of those |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from memory=Causer |

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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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