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title: Never had she listened to such tones as these; they came from beyond… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Never had she listened to such tones as these; they came from beyond a large dark curtain which separated the regions of death from the land of eternity. Who acts: strain, tones, large dark curtain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave, wit
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 47

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Never had she listened to such tones as these; they came from beyond a large dark curtain which separated the regions of death from the land of eternity.

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**Who acts:** strain, tones, large dark curtain · **What happens:** not have, listen, come, separate · **To what, where:** strain, large dark curtain, regions

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strain, tones, large dark curtain), 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:pg27200:17:47
# text = Never had she listened to such tones as these; they came from beyond a large dark curtain which separated the regions of death from the land of eternity.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	separated	separate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | past |  | strain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** | participle | strain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to such tones as these | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tone=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | tones *= tone* |  |  | a large dark curtain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from curtain=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **separate** | past | a large dark curtain | the regions of death |  |  |  | from the land of eternity | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent region=Patient from land=Co-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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