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title: From the side streets sounded the merry notes of fiddles and wind in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: From the side streets sounded the merry notes of fiddles and wind instruments. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 55

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From the side streets sounded the merry notes of fiddles and wind instruments.

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**What happens:** sound, note · **To what, where:** merry notes, side streets, fiddles

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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: 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:pg27200:25:55
# text = From the side streets sounded the merry notes of fiddles and wind instruments.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fiddles	fiddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past |  | the merry notes of fiddles and wind instruments |  | the side streets |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=Theme |
| 2 | **note** |  |  | fiddles and wind instruments |  |  |  |  | nom note «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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