Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 113

“Ding, dong!” sounded the Hyacinth bells.

Who acts: Ding, Hyacinth · What happens: sound, bell

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ding, Hyacinth), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ding	punct
2	Ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounded	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dong	punct
4	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ding	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ding	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ding	punct
7	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Hyacinth	det
9	Hyacinth	Hyacinth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bells	nsubj
10	bells	bell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sounded	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	Ding and dong						tree rules
2	bell	present	the Hyacinth						tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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