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title: He sang it out clearly, sweetly, richly, in well-sounding verses; wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He sang it out clearly, sweetly, richly, in well-sounding verses; while the other investigated created matter itself, and even cut it open where need was. Who acts: God. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 120

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He sang it out clearly, sweetly, richly, in well-sounding verses; while the other investigated created matter itself, and even cut it open where need was.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** sing out, sound, investigate, create, cut, be · **To what, where:** searcher, sounding verses

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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:pg27200:194:120
# text = He sang it out clearly, sweetly, richly, in well-sounding verses; while the other investigated created matter itself, and even cut it open where need was.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	investigated	investigate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
23	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
31	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing out** *speech: express* | past | God | searcher |  | sounding verses |  | the other investigated created matter  searcher *obl*; clearly, richly, sweetly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **investigate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **create** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cut** | infinitive |  | searcher |  |  |  | open *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | need *property* | tree rules |

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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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