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title: No hymn of supplication, no holy chant, could melt his soul like the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No hymn of supplication, no holy chant, could melt his soul like the sound of her voice. Who acts: hymn, supplication. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 82

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No hymn of supplication, no holy chant, could melt his soul like the sound of her voice.

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**Who acts:** hymn, supplication · **What happens:** melt, hymn · **To what, where:** soul

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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 (hymn, supplication), 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:pg27200:151:82
# text = No hymn of supplication, no holy chant, could melt his soul like the sound of her voice.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	supplication	supplication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | could | no hymn of supplication and no holy chant | Providence's soul |  |  |  | like the sound of marble's voice | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient soul=Result |
| 2 | **hymn** |  | supplication |  |  |  |  |  | nom hymn «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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