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title: The road led by the church, and as they passed he could hear the org… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The road led by the church, and as they passed he could hear the organ playing and the people singing beautifully. Who acts: road, organ, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 160

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The road led by the church, and as they passed he could hear the organ playing and the people singing beautifully.

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**Who acts:** road, organ, people · **What happens:** lead, pass, hear, play, sing · **To what, where:** road, organ

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, organ, people), 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:pg27200:71:160
# text = The road led by the church, and as they passed he could hear the organ playing and the people singing beautifully.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
22	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | the road *not said here* |  |  |  | by the church | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by church=Destination |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the road |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | could | road | the organ |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer organ=Stimulus |
| 4 | **play** | gerund | the organ *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the people |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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