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title: There is a humming and a murmuring from the hall of the machines; fr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a humming and a murmuring from the hall of the machines; from the towers the melody of the chimes is heard; with the tones of the organs in the churches mingle the hoarse nasal songs from the cafes of the East. Who acts: humming, tones. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen»
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 117

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There is a humming and a murmuring from the hall of the machines; from the towers the melody of the chimes is heard; with the tones of the organs in the churches mingle the hoarse nasal songs from the cafes of the East.

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**Who acts:** humming, tones · **What happens:** be, hear, mingle, intonate · **To what, where:** melody, towers, hoarse nasal songs, cafes, organs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (humming, tones), 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:pg27200:24:117
# text = There is a humming and a murmuring from the hall of the machines; from the towers the melody of the chimes is heard; with the tones of the organs in the churches mingle the hoarse nasal songs from the cafes of the East.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	humming	humming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chimes	chime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	organs	organ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	mingle	mingle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	nasal	nasal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	cafes	cafe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | a humming and a murmuring from the hall of the machines |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | present · passive |  | the melody of the chimes |  | the towers |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mingle** | present | the tones of the organs in the churches | the hoarse nasal songs |  | the cafes of the East |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient |
| 4 | **intonate** |  |  | the organs in the churches |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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