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title: And they ran towards each other and took one another's hand, in the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And they ran towards each other and took one another's hand, in the great cathedral of nature and poesy, and above them sounded the invisible holy bell; happy spirits surrounded them, singing hallelujahs and rejoicing. Who acts: colours. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 69

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And they ran towards each other and took one another's hand, in the great cathedral of nature and poesy, and above them sounded the invisible holy bell; happy spirits surrounded them, singing hallelujahs and rejoicing.

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**Who acts:** colours · **What happens:** run, take, sound, surround, sing · **To what, where:** each, one, great cathedral, invisible holy bell, happy spirits, hallelujahs

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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 (colours), 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:pg27200:9:69
# text = And they ran towards each other and took one another's hand, in the great cathedral of nature and poesy, and above them sounded the invisible holy bell; happy spirits surrounded them, singing hallelujahs and rejoicing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obl	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	poesy	poesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	above	above	ADP	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
38	hallelujahs	hallelujah	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | colours *= colour* |  |  | each |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards each=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | past | colours *= colour* *not said here* | one |  | the great cathedral of nature and poesy |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument one=Theme hand=Destination |
| 3 | **sound** | past | colours *= colour* | the invisible holy bell |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 4 | **surround** | participle · passive |  | happy spirits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  | hallelujahs and rejoicing |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hallelujah=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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