--- title: The king's son often stood still and listened; sometimes he thought… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The king's son often stood still and listened; sometimes he thought that the sound of the bell rose up to him out of one of these deep lakes, but soon he found that this was a mistake, and that the bell was ringing still farther in the wood. Who acts: son, sound, this, bell. 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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 (son, sound, this, bell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:9:59 # text = The king's son often stood still and listened; sometimes he thought that the sound of the bell rose up to him out of one of these deep lakes, but soon he found that this was a mistake, and that the bell was ringing still farther in the wood. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 24 out out ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 29 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 ringing ring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 48 still still ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 47 advmod _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the king's son | | | | still | often *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **listen** | past | the king's son *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | son | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **rise up** | past | the sound of the bell | | son | | | out one of this deep lakes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location out one=Destination | | 5 | **find** | past | son | | | | | soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | this | a mistake | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **ring** | past · progressive | the bell | | | the wood | | far *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/9/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/9/60/) - ↑ back to [The Bell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/9/)