Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 71

The church-bells rang, and the children recognised the high towers, and the large town; it was that in which they dwelt.

Who acts: church bells, children, town · What happens: ring, recognise, be · To what, where: high towers

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church bells, children, town), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bells	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bells	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 church	punct
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rang	nsubj
5	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 recognised	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 recognised	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 recognised	nsubj
10	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rang	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 towers	det
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 towers	amod
13	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 recognised	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 town	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 town	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 town	amod
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recognised	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 dwelt	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dwelt	nsubj:outer
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 dwelt	cop
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 dwelt	mark
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 dwelt	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dwelt	nsubj
26	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rang	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ring	past	the church bells			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	recognise	past	the children	the high towers		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tower=Stimulus
3	is	past	town		dwell property	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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