Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 15

However, he said that the sound proceeded from a very large owl, in a hollow tree; a sort of learned owl, that continually knocked its head against the branches.

Who acts: One, sound, sort · What happens: say, proceed, learn, knock, sort · To what, where: large owl, that, learned owl · 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, sound, sort), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 proceeded	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sound	det
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proceeded	nsubj
8	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 owl	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 owl	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 large	advmod
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 owl	amod
13	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proceeded	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tree	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 tree	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
17	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tree	amod
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proceeded	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 knocked	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sort	det
21	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knocked	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 owl	case
23	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 owl	amod
24	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sort	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knocked	punct
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 knocked	obj
27	continually	continually	ADV	_	28 knocked	advmod
28	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knocked	obj
31	against	against	ADP	_	33 branches	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 branches	det
33	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 knocked	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	One			however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	proceed	past	the sound		a large owl	in a hollow tree	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	learn	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	knock	past	a sort of learned owl	that		against the branches; continually property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination head=Theme
5	sort			learned owl			nom sort «cognition 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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