---
title: Still, he could hear false notes and bad singing, gossip and idle wo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Still, he could hear false notes and bad singing, gossip and idle words, scandal and slander, groaning and moaning, without and within. " Who acts: tumult. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/108/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/) / 108

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 108

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Still, he could hear false notes and bad singing, gossip and idle words, scandal and slander, groaning and moaning, without and within. "

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** tumult · **What happens:** hear, groan, moan · **To what, where:** false notes

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tumult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:143:108
# text = Still, he could hear false notes and bad singing, gossip and idle words, scandal and slander, groaning and moaning, without and within. "
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	scandal	scandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	slander	slander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | could | tumult | false notes  scandal and slander and bad singing and gossip and idle words |  |  | still |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
| 2 | **groan** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **moan** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/107/)
- next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/109/)
- ↑ back to [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/)