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title: The music and singing of the congregation sounded in her ears while… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The music and singing of the congregation sounded in her ears while at work in her kitchen, till the place itself became sacred to her. Who acts: music, work. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 25

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The music and singing of the congregation sounded in her ears while at work in her kitchen, till the place itself became sacred to her.

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**Who acts:** music, work · **What happens:** sing, sound, become · **To what, where:** ears

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, work), 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:pg27200:67:25
# text = The music and singing of the congregation sounded in her ears while at work in her kitchen, till the place itself became sacred to her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	till	till	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
24	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the music *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the congregation | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | past | the music |  |  | music's ears |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 3 | **become** | past | work in music's kitchen |  |  |  |  | sacred *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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