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title: These flocks are never seen, yet the tinkle of their little bells ha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These flocks are never seen, yet the tinkle of their little bells has often been heard, as well as their unearthly bleating. Who acts: little bells. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 56

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These flocks are never seen, yet the tinkle of their little bells has often been heard, as well as their unearthly bleating.

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**Who acts:** little bells · **What happens:** not see, hear, tinkle · **To what, where:** flocks, tinkle

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bells), 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:pg27200:53:56
# text = These flocks are never seen, yet the tinkle of their little bells has often been heard, as well as their unearthly bleating.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tinkle	tinkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	24	cc	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	fixed	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	unearthly	unearthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bleating	bleating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | present · passive |  | this flocks |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | present · perfect · passive |  | the tinkle of waters's little bells |  |  |  | often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tinkle** |  | waters's little bells |  |  |  |  |  | nom tinkle «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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