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title: Sounds of music and the clatter of castanets came from the road bene… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sounds of music and the clatter of castanets came from the road beneath, the stars shone above then, and two eyes full of affection--those of his wife--looked upon him with the expression of undying love. " Who acts: Sounds, castanets. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 32

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Sounds of music and the clatter of castanets came from the road beneath, the stars shone above then, and two eyes full of affection--those of his wife--looked upon him with the expression of undying love. "

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**Who acts:** Sounds, castanets · **What happens:** come, shine, look, clatter · **To what, where:** road, stars

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sounds, castanets), 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:pg27200:158:32
# text = Sounds of music and the clatter of castanets came from the road beneath, the stars shone above then, and two eyes full of affection--those of his wife--looked upon him with the expression of undying love. "
1	Sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	clatter	clatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	castanets	castanet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
17	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	above	above	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	undying	undying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Sounds of music and the clatter of castanets |  |  | the road |  | beneath *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from road=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shine** | participle |  | the stars *not said here* |  |  | then | above *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | Sounds of music and the clatter of castanets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon husband; with the expression of undying love | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme |
| 4 | **clatter** |  | castanets |  |  |  |  |  | nom clatter «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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