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title: Stranger guests came from far and near, music sounded, goblets clash… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Stranger guests came from far and near, music sounded, goblets clashed, and I," said the Wind, "was not able to drown the noise. Who acts: Stranger guests, music, goblets, whir. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 19

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Stranger guests came from far and near, music sounded, goblets clashed, and I," said the Wind, "was not able to drown the noise.

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**Who acts:** Stranger guests, music, goblets, whir, Wind · **What happens:** come, sound, clash, say, not be, drown · **To what, where:** noise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Stranger guests, music, goblets, whir), 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:pg27200:212:19
# text = Stranger guests came from far and near, music sounded, goblets clashed, and I," said the Wind, "was not able to drown the noise.
1	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	goblets	goblet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	clashed	clash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Stranger guests |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sound** | past | music |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **clash** | past | goblets |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | whir |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | the Wind |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **drown** | to-infinitive | the Wind *not said here* | the noise |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=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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