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title: The tones of the organ swelled, and in their song there sounded thes… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The tones of the organ swelled, and in their song there sounded these words: Who acts: tones. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 8

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The tones of the organ swelled, and in their song there sounded these words:

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**Who acts:** tones · **What happens:** swell, sound, intonate, sing · **To what, where:** words, song, organ

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:27:8
# text = The tones of the organ swelled, and in their song there sounded these words:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swell** | past | the tones of the organ |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **sound** | past | the tones of the organ *not said here* | this words |  | tones's song; there |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme |
| 3 | **intonate** |  |  | the organ |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **sing** |  | tones *= tone* |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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