Kernel Sentence: He asks the police officers to sit.
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Kernel Sentence: He confesses.
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From the tale tell heart
Kernel Sentence: He hears the heartbeat.
• Who? The narrator
• What? A faint sound
• Where? In the old man's room
Expanded Sentence: The narrator, filled with paranoia and guilt, hears a faint, persistent sound that he believes to be the old man's heart beating loudly under the floorboards.