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title: Then the melody of the psalm burst forth, like the sound of the wate… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the melody of the psalm burst forth, like the sound of the waters, and Jurgen saw that his foster parents from the Hunsby dunes were there, also old merchant Bronne with his wife and their daughter Clara, who gave him her hand. Who acts: melody, Jurgen, foster parents, old merchant. A sentence 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 7

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Then the melody of the psalm burst forth, like the sound of the waters, and Jurgen saw that his foster parents from the Hunsby dunes were there, also old merchant Bronne with his wife and their daughter Clara, who gave him her hand.

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**Who acts:** melody, Jurgen, foster parents, old merchant · **What happens:** burst, see, be, give · **To what, where:** old merchant, hand, Jurgen

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (melody, Jurgen, foster parents, old merchant), 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:pg27200:163:7
# text = Then the melody of the psalm burst forth, like the sound of the waters, and Jurgen saw that his foster parents from the Hunsby dunes were there, also old merchant Bronne with his wife and their daughter Clara, who gave him her hand.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	psalm	psalm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Hunsby	Hunsby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
34	Bronne	Bronne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	Clara	Clara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | the melody of the psalm |  |  |  | then | like the sound of the waters; forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Jurgen | old merchant with Jurgen's wife and parents's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Jurgen's foster parents from the Hunsby dunes |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past | old merchant with Jurgen's wife and parents's daughter | melody's hand | Jurgen |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hand=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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