--- title: Even the violin and the bow appeared to perform independently of the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Even the violin and the bow appeared to perform independently of their master who guided them; it was as if soul and spirit had been breathed into the instrument, so the audience forgot the performer in the beautiful sounds he produced. Who acts: violin, master, audience. A sentence of «Fairy Tales --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/142/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Pen and the Inkstand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/142/) / 29 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 29 Even the violin and the bow appeared to perform independently of their master who guided them; it was as if soul and spirit had been breathed into the instrument, so the audience forgot the performer in the beautiful sounds he produced. **Who acts:** violin, master, audience · **What happens:** appear, perform, guide, breathe, forget, produce · **To what, where:** violin, bow, instrument, performer, beautiful sounds 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 (violin, master, audience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:142:29 # text = Even the violin and the bow appeared to perform independently of their master who guided them; it was as if soul and spirit had been breathed into the instrument, so the audience forgot the performer in the beautiful sounds he produced. 1 Even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 violin violin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 perform perform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 independently independently ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 guided guide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 breathed breathe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 performer performer NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 produced produce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the violin and the bow | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **perform** | to-infinitive | the violin and the bow *not said here* | | | | | of violin's master; independently *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **guide** | past | violin's master | violin | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **breathe** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | | bow | | the instrument | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **forget** | past | the audience | the performer | | the beautiful sounds | | | tree rules | | 6 | **produce** | past | audience | the beautiful sounds *not said here* | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/142/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/142/30/) - ↑ back to [The Pen and the Inkstand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/142/)