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title: Her eyes spoke, her lips spoke, but the sound of violins and of flut… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her eyes spoke, her lips spoke, but the sound of violins and of flutes drowned the sound of her voice. Who acts: eyes, lips, sound. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 72

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Her eyes spoke, her lips spoke, but the sound of violins and of flutes drowned the sound of her voice.

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**Who acts:** eyes, lips, sound · **What happens:** speak, drown · **To what, where:** sound · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, lips, sound), 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:pg27200:26:72
# text = Her eyes spoke, her lips spoke, but the sound of violins and of flutes drowned the sound of her voice.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	violins	violin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	flutes	flute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | joviality's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | joviality's lips |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drown** | past | the sound of violins and flutes | the sound of joviality's voice |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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