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title: But the deep sounds of the bell were much stronger; soon it seemed t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the deep sounds of the bell were much stronger; soon it seemed to him as if an organ played an accompaniment--the sound came from the left, from the side where the heart is. Who acts: deep sounds, it, organ, sound. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bel
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 43

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But the deep sounds of the bell were much stronger; soon it seemed to him as if an organ played an accompaniment--the sound came from the left, from the side where the heart is.

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**Who acts:** deep sounds, it, organ, sound, heart · **What happens:** be, seem, play, come · **To what, where:** other, accompaniment, left

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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 (deep sounds, it, organ, sound), 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:pg27200:9:43
# text = But the deep sounds of the bell were much stronger; soon it seemed to him as if an organ played an accompaniment--the sound came from the left, from the side where the heart is.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
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	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	accompaniment	accompaniment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the deep sounds of the bell |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  | other |  |  | soon *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | past | a organ | a accompaniment |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accompaniment=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | the sound |  |  | the left |  | from the side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from left=Initial\_Location from side=Destination |
| 5 | **be** | present | the heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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