Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 11

There were three persons who asserted they had penetrated to the end of the forest, and that they had always heard the wonderful sounds of the bell, but it had seemed to them as if it had come from the town.

Who acts: three persons, persons, it, Bell · What happens: be, assert, penetrate, hear, seem, come · To what, where: persons, town

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 (three persons, persons, it, Bell), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 persons	nummod
4	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 asserted	nsubj
6	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 persons	acl:relcl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 penetrated	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 penetrated	aux
9	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 asserted	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 penetrated	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heard	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 heard	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	aux
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 heard	advmod
22	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 penetrated	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sounds	det
24	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sounds	amod
25	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 heard	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 bell	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bell	det
28	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sounds	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 seemed	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seemed	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seemed	aux
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seemed	obl
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 come	mark
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 come	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 come	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 come	aux
40	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 seemed	xcomp
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 town	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 town	det
43	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 come	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	three persons			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	assert	past	three persons						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	penetrate	past · perfect	persons = person				to the end of the forest		vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past · perfect · passive		persons = person				always property	tree rules
5	seem	past	it		persons = person				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	come a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Bell			the town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location

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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