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title: Here are sounds of soft Italian melodies; yonder, Spanish songs are… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here are sounds of soft Italian melodies; yonder, Spanish songs are sung, accompanied by the rattle of the castanets; but strongest of all, and predominating over the rest, the street-organ tunes of the moment, the exciting "Can-Can" music, which Orpheus never knew, and which was never heard by the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 104

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Here are sounds of soft Italian melodies; yonder, Spanish songs are sung, accompanied by the rattle of the castanets; but strongest of all, and predominating over the rest, the street-organ tunes of the moment, the exciting "Can-Can" music, which Orpheus never knew, and which was never heard by the "Belle Helene."

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**Who acts:** exciting, Orpheus, Belle, castanets · **What happens:** be, sing, accompany, predominate, music, not know · **To what, where:** Spanish songs, rest, music

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (exciting, Orpheus, Belle, castanets), 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:pg27200:25:104
# text = Here are sounds of soft Italian melodies; yonder, Spanish songs are sung, accompanied by the rattle of the castanets; but strongest of all, and predominating over the rest, the street-organ tunes of the moment, the exciting "Can-Can" music, which Orpheus never knew, and which was never heard by the "Belle Helene."
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rattle	rattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	castanets	castanet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	predominating	predominate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	tunes	tune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	nsubj	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
51	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	obj	_	_
54	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
55	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
59	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj:pass	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	aux:pass	_	_
61	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	62	advmod	_	_
62	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
63	by	by	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
65	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	Belle	Belle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
67	Helene	Helene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · passive |  | Spanish songs |  |  |  | strongest *obl:unmarked* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **accompany** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the rattle of the castanets | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by rattle=Destination |
| 4 | **predominate** | gerund |  |  |  | the rest  the organ tunes of the moment |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rest=Location |
| 5 | **music** | can | the exciting |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **know** | past | Orpheus | music |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 7 | **not** **hear** | past · passive | the Belle |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 8 | **rattle** |  | the castanets |  |  |  |  |  | nom rattle «event 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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