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title: The young married pair often sat together hand in hand; he would tal… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The young married pair often sat together hand in hand; he would talk, but she could only now and then let fall a word in the same melodious voice, the same bell-like tones. Who acts: young married pair, gilding. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of For
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 96

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The young married pair often sat together hand in hand; he would talk, but she could only now and then let fall a word in the same melodious voice, the same bell-like tones.

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**Who acts:** young married pair, gilding · **What happens:** sit, talk, let, fall · **To what, where:** hand, word, same melodious voice

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young married pair, gilding), 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:pg27200:7:96
# text = The young married pair often sat together hand in hand; he would talk, but she could only now and then let fall a word in the same melodious voice, the same bell-like tones.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	melodious	melodious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
35	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **sit** | past | the young married pair | hand |  | hand |  | often, together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **talk** | would | gilding |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | past | the young married pair *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | the young married pair *not said here* | a word |  | the same melodious voice |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient word=Result |

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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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