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title: Shouts of joy greet him from the breasts of all, and the clash of be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Shouts of joy greet him from the breasts of all, and the clash of bells sounds to celebrate his triumphant return; but the clash of the bells of envy soon drowns the others. Who acts: Shouts, clash, bells, Columbus. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 35

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Shouts of joy greet him from the breasts of all, and the clash of bells sounds to celebrate his triumphant return; but the clash of the bells of envy soon drowns the others.

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**Who acts:** Shouts, clash, bells, Columbus · **What happens:** greet, sound, celebrate, drown, shout, clash · **To what, where:** Columbus, breasts, triumphant return, others, joy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shouts, clash, bells, Columbus), 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:pg27200:190:35
# text = Shouts of joy greet him from the breasts of all, and the clash of bells sounds to celebrate his triumphant return; but the clash of the bells of envy soon drowns the others.
1	Shouts	shout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	clash	clash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	clash	clash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	drowns	drown	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Shouts of joy |  | Columbus | the breasts of all |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | present | the clash of bells |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **celebrate** | to-infinitive | the clash of bells *not said here* | Columbus's triumphant return |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Theme |
| 4 | **drown** | present | the clash of the bells of envy | the others |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient |
| 5 | **shout** |  |  | joy |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **clash** |  | bells |  |  |  |  |  | nom clash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **return** |  | Columbus |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **clash** |  | the bells of envy |  |  |  |  |  | nom clash «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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