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title: Soft tones and charming songs reached her ear, as well as harsh soun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Soft tones and charming songs reached her ear, as well as harsh sounds and rough words--thoughts and opinions in strange contradiction to each other. Who acts: Soft tones. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 199

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Soft tones and charming songs reached her ear, as well as harsh sounds and rough words--thoughts and opinions in strange contradiction to each other.

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**Who acts:** Soft tones · **What happens:** charm, reach · **To what, where:** ear

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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 (Soft tones), 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:pg27200:143:199
# text = Soft tones and charming songs reached her ear, as well as harsh sounds and rough words--thoughts and opinions in strange contradiction to each other.
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	14	cc	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
13	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	opinions	opinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	contradiction	contradiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nmod	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **reach** | past | Soft tones and charming songs | page's ear |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ear=Beneficiary sound=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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