Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 2
For a strange wondrous tone was heard in the narrow streets of a large town.
What happens: hear · To what, where: narrow streets
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 tone | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tone | det |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tone | amod |
| 4 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tone | amod |
| 5 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | aux:pass |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 streets | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 streets | det |
| 10 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 streets | amod |
| 11 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 town | amod |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 streets | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the narrow streets of a large town | for a strange wondrous tone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
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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