Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 16

But whether the sound came from his head or from the hollow tree, that no one could say with certainty.

Who acts: sound, one · What happens: come, say · To what, where: head · 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 (sound, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 tree	cc
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
12	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tree	amod
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 say	mark
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 say	aux
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 certainty	case
21	certainty	certainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the sound			One's head or the hollow tree			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from head=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	could	no one					with certainty	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with certainty=Manner

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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