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title: And then came the sound of the evening bells, borne upon the breeze… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then came the sound of the evening bells, borne upon the breeze over the mountains of Switzerland and Savoy, while still, in the golden splendor of the west, stood the dark blue mountains of Jura. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 23

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And then came the sound of the evening bells, borne upon the breeze over the mountains of Switzerland and Savoy, while still, in the golden splendor of the west, stood the dark blue mountains of Jura.

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**What happens:** come, bear, stand · **To what, where:** sound, golden splendor, evening bells, mountains, dark blue mountains

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. 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:pg27200:66:23
# text = And then came the sound of the evening bells, borne upon the breeze over the mountains of Switzerland and Savoy, while still, in the golden splendor of the west, stood the dark blue mountains of Jura.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Savoy	Savoy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Jura	Jura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the sound of the evening bells |  | the golden splendor of the west | then; still |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | the evening bells *not said here* |  | the mountains of Switzerland and Savoy |  | upon the breeze | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  | the dark blue mountains of Jura |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus |

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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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