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title: No music could have touched his heart as did these sounds of the sea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No music could have touched his heart as did these sounds of the sea--the rolling sea, the boundless sea, on which a man can be borne across the world before the wind, carrying his own house with him wherever he goes, just as the snail carries its home even into a strange country. Who acts: man, sna
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 49

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No music could have touched his heart as did these sounds of the sea--the rolling sea, the boundless sea, on which a man can be borne across the world before the wind, carrying his own house with him wherever he goes, just as the snail carries its home even into a strange country.

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**Who acts:** man, snail · **What happens:** touch, do, roll, bear, carry, go · **To what, where:** music, sounds, man, own house, home

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, snail), 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:pg27200:161:49
# text = No music could have touched his heart as did these sounds of the sea--the rolling sea, the boundless sea, on which a man can be borne across the world before the wind, carrying his own house with him wherever he goes, just as the snail carries its home even into a strange country.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
31	across	across	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
44	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	just	just	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
49	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
53	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	even	even	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
56	into	into	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | could · perfect · passive |  | no music |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer heart=Result |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | this sounds of the sea and the rolling sea and the boundless sea |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Eventuality |
| 3 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bear** | can · passive |  | a man |  | this sounds of the sea and the rolling sea and the boundless sea | before the wind | across the world | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **carry** | gerund |  | Jurgen's own house |  |  |  | with Jurgen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | present | man |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **carry** | present | the snail | wind's home |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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