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title: It was the hour of the mother's sorrow, when there pealed forth from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the hour of the mother's sorrow, when there pealed forth from the church tower the sound of festive bells. Who acts: child, mother. 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 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 9

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It was the hour of the mother's sorrow, when there pealed forth from the church tower the sound of festive bells.

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**Who acts:** child, mother · **What happens:** be, peal, sorrow · **To what, where:** hour, church tower

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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 (child, mother), 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:pg27200:129:9
# text = It was the hour of the mother's sorrow, when there pealed forth from the church tower the sound of festive bells.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	pealed	peal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	festive	festive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | child | the hour |  |  |  | of the mother's sorrow | tree rules |
| 2 | **peal** | participle | child *not said here* |  |  | the church tower; there |  | forth *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sorrow** |  | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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