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title: The tolling of the church bell was the last sound that echoed above… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The tolling of the church bell was the last sound that echoed above him, above the dead man; and they buried him, covering him with earth that had been brought from Jerusalem, and in which was mingled the dust of many of the pious dead. Who acts: tolling, last sound, men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 232

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The tolling of the church bell was the last sound that echoed above him, above the dead man; and they buried him, covering him with earth that had been brought from Jerusalem, and in which was mingled the dust of many of the pious dead.

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**Who acts:** tolling, last sound, men · **What happens:** be, echo, bury, cover, bring, mingle · **To what, where:** last sound, world, earth, Jerusalem, dust

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tolling, last sound, men), 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:pg27200:151:232
# text = The tolling of the church bell was the last sound that echoed above him, above the dead man; and they buried him, covering him with earth that had been brought from Jerusalem, and in which was mingled the dust of many of the pious dead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tolling	tolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	above	above	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obl	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the tolling of the church bell | the last sound |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **echo** | past | the last sound |  |  |  |  | above world; above the dead man | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above he=Location |
| 3 | **bury** | past | men *= man* | world |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **cover** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* |  | world |  |  | with earth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with earth=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | earth |  | Jerusalem |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from jerusalem=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **mingle** | past · passive | the last sound *not said here* | the dust of many of the pious dead |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: dust=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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