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title: She could sweep the sounding chords of the guitar, and sing to the m… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She could sweep the sounding chords of the guitar, and sing to the music, not always Danish melodies, but the songs of a strange land. Who acts: whir, strange land. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 17

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She could sweep the sounding chords of the guitar, and sing to the music, not always Danish melodies, but the songs of a strange land.

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**Who acts:** whir, strange land · **What happens:** sweep, sound, sing · **To what, where:** sounding chords, music

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whir, strange land), 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:pg27200:212:17
# text = She could sweep the sounding chords of the guitar, and sing to the music, not always Danish melodies, but the songs of a strange land.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	chords	chord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	guitar	guitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | could | whir | the sounding chords of the guitar |  |  |  | the songs of a strange land *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chord=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sound** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | whir *not said here* |  | the music and Danish melodies |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to music=Recipient |
| 4 | **sing** |  | a strange land |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication 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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