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title: "What merry sounds are on the wind, As marriage rites together bind… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "What merry sounds are on the wind, As marriage rites together bind A quiet and a loving pair, Though formed of kid, yet smooth and fair! Who acts: merry sounds, marriage rites. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 138

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"What merry sounds are on the wind, As marriage rites together bind A quiet and a loving pair, Though formed of kid, yet smooth and fair!

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**Who acts:** merry sounds, marriage rites · **What happens:** be, bind, form · **To what, where:** wind, quiet

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merry sounds, marriage rites), 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:pg27200:8530`): 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:pg27200:134:138
# text = "What merry sounds are on the wind, As marriage rites together bind A quiet and a loving pair, Though formed of kid, yet smooth and fair!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
3	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	bind	bind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | what merry sounds |  |  | the wind |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bind** *in a quote* | present | marriage rites | a quiet and a loving pair |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quiet=Patient |
| 3 | **form** *in a quote* | participle | marriage rites *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of kid | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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