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title: Then music was heard again; it was wonderfully sweet, like a child's… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 9

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Then music was heard again; it was wonderfully sweet, like a child's voice, full of joy and expectation, swelling to the powerful tones of a full organ, sometimes soft and sweet, then like the sounds of a tempest, delightful and elevating to hear, yet strong enough to burst the stone tombs of the dead.

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**Who acts:** music · **What happens:** hear, be, swell, elevate, burst, intonate · **To what, where:** music, sounds, stone tombs, full organ

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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 (music), 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:pg27200:163:9
# text = Then music was heard again; it was wonderfully sweet, like a child's voice, full of joy and expectation, swelling to the powerful tones of a full organ, sometimes soft and sweet, then like the sounds of a tempest, delightful and elevating to hear, yet strong enough to burst the stone tombs of the dead.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	swelling	swell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
35	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	elevating	elevate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	conj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
55	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obj	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | music |  |  | then; again |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | music |  |  |  |  | like a child's voice; sweet, wonderfully *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swell** | gerund | music *not said here* | the sounds of a tempest |  |  |  | to the powerful tones of a full organ *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient sound=Extent to tone=Result |
| 4 | **elevate** | gerund | music *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive | music *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **be** |  | music *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **burst** | to-infinitive | music *not said here* | the stone tombs of the dead |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tomb=Theme |
| 8 | **intonate** |  |  | a full organ |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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