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title: The performer had produced from his instrument a richness of tone th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The performer had produced from his instrument a richness of tone that sometimes sounded like tinkling waterdrops or rolling pearls; sometimes like the birds twittering in chorus, and then rising and swelling in sound like the wind through the fir-trees. Who acts: tone, birds. A sentence of «Fairy T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 25

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The performer had produced from his instrument a richness of tone that sometimes sounded like tinkling waterdrops or rolling pearls; sometimes like the birds twittering in chorus, and then rising and swelling in sound like the wind through the fir-trees.

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**Who acts:** tone, birds · **What happens:** produce, sound, tinkle, roll, twitter, rise · **To what, where:** performer, instrument, waterdrops, pearls, chorus

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tone, birds), 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:pg27200:142:25
# text = The performer had produced from his instrument a richness of tone that sometimes sounded like tinkling waterdrops or rolling pearls; sometimes like the birds twittering in chorus, and then rising and swelling in sound like the wind through the fir-trees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	performer	performer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	richness	richness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	tinkling	tinkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	waterdrops	waterdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
20	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
26	twittering	twitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	swelling	swell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	through	through	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **produce** | past · perfect · passive |  | the performer |  | poet's instrument |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from instrument=Material |
| 2 | **sound** | past | tone |  |  |  |  | like the birds; sometimes *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tinkle** | gerund | tone *not said here* | waterdrops |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location waterdrop=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** | gerund | tone *not said here* | pearls |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme |
| 5 | **twitter** | gerund | the birds *not said here* |  |  | chorus |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rise** | gerund | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **swell** | gerund | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the wind; through the fir trees; in sound | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sound=Attribute |

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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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