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description: In tones that were at once rich and strong, like the trumpet of the Last Judgment bidding farewell to life and summoning to the great account, it said: Who acts: tones, Last Judgment, farewell. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 126

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In tones that were at once rich and strong, like the trumpet of the Last Judgment bidding farewell to life and summoning to the great account, it said:

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**Who acts:** tones, Last Judgment, farewell · **What happens:** be, bid, summon, say · **To what, where:** farewell, tones · **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 (tones, Last Judgment, farewell), 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:pg27200:24:126
# text = In tones that were at once rich and strong, like the trumpet of the Last Judgment bidding farewell to life and summoning to the great account, it said:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	summoning	summon	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | tones and the trumpet of the Last Judgment |  |  |  |  | once, rich *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | tones and the trumpet of the Last Judgment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bid** | gerund | the Last Judgment *not said here* | farewell |  |  |  | to life | tree rules |
| 4 | **summon** | gerund | the Last Judgment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the great account | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | farewell |  |  | tones and the trumpet of the Last Judgment |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner |

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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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