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title: Its sound was as thrilling as the whistle of a steam engine; in fact… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Its sound was as thrilling as the whistle of a steam engine; in fact it was much stronger, for it sounded and was heard in the yard, in the garden, in the wood, and many miles round in the country; at the same time a storm rose and roared; "Everything in the right place." Who acts: sound, steam engi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 112

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Its sound was as thrilling as the whistle of a steam engine; in fact it was much stronger, for it sounded and was heard in the yard, in the garden, in the wood, and many miles round in the country; at the same time a storm rose and roared; "Everything in the right place."

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**Who acts:** sound, steam engine · **What happens:** thrill, be, sound, hear, roar, whistle · **To what, where:** fact, Everything, right place

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, steam engine), 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:pg27200:155:112
# text = Its sound was as thrilling as the whistle of a steam engine; in fact it was much stronger, for it sounded and was heard in the yard, in the garden, in the wood, and many miles round in the country; at the same time a storm rose and roared; "Everything in the right place."
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	thrilling	thrill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
40	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
42	round	round	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
57	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	55	obj	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	58	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thrill** | past · progressive | flute's sound |  |  |  | time | as the whistle of a steam engine | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | sound |  |  | fact |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sound** | past | sound |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hear** | past · passive | sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the yard | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 5 | **roar** | past | flute's sound *not said here* | Everything |  | the right place |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everything=Theme |
| 6 | **whistle** |  | a steam engine |  |  |  |  |  | nom whistle «event 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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