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title: The sound did not come from frogs or ravens; she saw no sign of such… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sound did not come from frogs or ravens; she saw no sign of such creatures. " Who acts: sound. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 125

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The sound did not come from frogs or ravens; she saw no sign of such creatures. "

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**Who acts:** sound · **What happens:** not come, see, sign · **To what, where:** sign, such creatures

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:5:125
# text = The sound did not come from frogs or ravens; she saw no sign of such creatures. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | the sound |  |  |  |  | from frogs or ravens | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from frog=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | sound | no sign of such creatures |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sign** |  |  | such creatures |  |  |  |  | nom sign «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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