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title: And in his heart were hidden chords, which might have sounded far ou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And in his heart were hidden chords, which might have sounded far out into the world if he had been placed anywhere else than in the fisherman's hut by the North Sea. Who acts: hidden chords. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 27

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And in his heart were hidden chords, which might have sounded far out into the world if he had been placed anywhere else than in the fisherman's hut by the North Sea.

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**Who acts:** hidden chords · **What happens:** be, sound, place · **To what, where:** heart, hidden chords, boy

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hidden chords), 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:pg27200:159:27
# text = And in his heart were hidden chords, which might have sounded far out into the world if he had been placed anywhere else than in the fisherman's hut by the North Sea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chords	chord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	sounded	sound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
23	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
24	else	else	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | hidden chords |  |  | boy's heart |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location |
| 2 | **sound** | might · perfect · passive |  | hidden chords |  |  |  | out *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **place** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | boy |  |  |  | than the fisherman's hut by the North Sea; anywhere, else *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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