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title: Thoughts rose up within him like the tones of the violin, falling li… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Thoughts rose up within him like the tones of the violin, falling like pearls, or rushing like the strong wind through the forest. Who acts: Thoughts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 48

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Thoughts rose up within him like the tones of the violin, falling like pearls, or rushing like the strong wind through the forest.

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**Who acts:** Thoughts · **What happens:** rise up, fall, rush, intonate · **To what, where:** forest, violin

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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 (Thoughts), 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:pg27200:142:48
# text = Thoughts rose up within him like the tones of the violin, falling like pearls, or rushing like the strong wind through the forest.
1	Thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	violin	violin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past | Thoughts |  |  |  |  | within poet; like the tones of the violin | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | Thoughts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like pearls | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | gerund | Thoughts *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  | like the strong wind | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory |
| 4 | **intonate** |  |  | the violin |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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