---
title: Then suddenly the sound of the bell was heard so beautifully and sol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then suddenly the sound of the bell was heard so beautifully and solemnly from the wood that four or five made up their minds to go still further on. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/9/29/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Bell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/9/) / 29

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 29

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Then suddenly the sound of the bell was heard so beautifully and solemnly from the wood that four or five made up their minds to go still further on.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** hear, make up, mind, go · **To what, where:** sound, wood

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:9:29
# text = Then suddenly the sound of the bell was heard so beautifully and solemnly from the wood that four or five made up their minds to go still further on.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	further	further	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the sound of the bell |  | the wood | then | beautifully *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from wood=Source |
| 2 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mind** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/9/28/)
- next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/9/30/)
- ↑ back to [The Bell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/9/)