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title: The organ pealed forth solemnly, and the sweet children's voices min… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The organ pealed forth solemnly, and the sweet children's voices mingled with that of their old leader; but Karen thought only of her red shoes. Who acts: organ, voices, Karen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 27

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The organ pealed forth solemnly, and the sweet children's voices mingled with that of their old leader; but Karen thought only of her red shoes.

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**Who acts:** organ, voices, Karen · **What happens:** peal, mingle, think

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (organ, voices, Karen), 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:pg27200:154:27
# text = The organ pealed forth solemnly, and the sweet children's voices mingled with that of their old leader; but Karen thought only of her red shoes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pealed	peal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peal** | past | the organ |  |  |  |  | forth, solemnly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mingle** | past | the sweet children's voices |  |  |  |  | with that | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Karen |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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