Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 12

One wrote a whole poem about it, and said the bell sounded like the voice of a mother to a good dear child, and that no melody was sweeter than the tones of the bell.

Who acts: One, bell, melody · What happens: write, say, sound, be, intonate · To what, where: whole poem, bell · 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 (One, bell, melody), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 poem	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 poem	amod
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poem	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bell	det
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sounded	nsubj
13	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 voice	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 voice	det
16	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sounded	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mother	det
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 voice	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 child	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 child	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 child	amod
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 child	amod
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sounded	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sweeter	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sweeter	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 sweeter	mark
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 melody	det
29	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sweeter	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sweeter	cop
31	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 wrote	conj
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 tones	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tones	det
34	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sweeter	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 bell	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bell	det
37	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tones	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	One	a whole poem	about Bell	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent poem=Recipient about it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	One not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sound	past	the bell		like the voice of a mother; to a good dear child	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to child=Experiencer
4	is	past	no melody		than the tones of the bell; sweet property	tree rules
5	intonate			the bell		nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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