Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 13

The king of the country was also observant of it, and vowed that he who could discover whence the sounds proceeded, should have the title of “Universal Bell-ringer,” even if it were not really a bell.

Who acts: king, sounds, Bell · What happens: be, vow, discover, proceed, have, not be · To what, where: observant, title, bell, Universal Bell ringer

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 (king, sounds, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 observant	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 country	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 observant	cop
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 observant	advmod
8	observant	observant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 observant	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 vowed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 vowed	cc
13	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 observant	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 discover	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 discover	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 discover	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 discover	aux
18	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 vowed	ccomp
19	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	22 proceeded	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sounds	det
21	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 proceeded	nsubj
22	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 discover	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 observant	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 title	det
27	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	33 ringer	case
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 ringer	punct
30	Universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ringer	amod
31	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 ringer	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Bell	punct
33	ringer	ringer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 title	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
36	even	even	ADV	_	43 bell	advmod
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 bell	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 bell	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 bell	cop
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 bell	advmod
41	really	really	ADV	_	43 bell	advmod
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 bell	det
43	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 observant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the king of the country	observant	of Bell	tree rules
2	vow	past	the king of the country not said here			tree rules
3	discover	could	king			vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	proceed	past	the sounds		whence property	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	have	should		the title of Universal Bell ringer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient
6	not is a a condition, not said to happen	past	Bell	a bell		tree rules
7	title			Universal Bell ringer		nom title «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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