Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 1
People said “The Evening Bell is sounding, the sun is setting.”
Who acts: People, Evening Bell, sun · What happens: say, sound, set · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» 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 (People, Evening Bell, sun), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sounding | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bell | det |
| 5 | Evening | Evening | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bell | compound |
| 6 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sounding | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sounding | aux |
| 8 | sounding | sound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 setting | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 setting | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 setting | aux |
| 13 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sounding | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 setting | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sounding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | People | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sound in a quote | present · progressive | the Evening Bell | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | set in a quote | present · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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