Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 20

The sun was shining gloriously; the children that had been confirmed went out of the town; and from the wood was borne towards them the sounds of the unknown bell with wonderful distinctness.

Who acts: sun, children · What happens: shine, confirm, go out, bear · To what, where: children, town, sounds, wood

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 (sun, children), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shining	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shining	aux
4	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	gloriously	gloriously	ADV	_	4 shining	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 confirmed	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 confirmed	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 confirmed	aux:pass
12	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 children	acl:relcl
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shining	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 town	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 town	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 town	det
17	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 borne	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 borne	cc
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 borne	obl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 borne	aux:pass
24	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 went	conj
25	towards	towards	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 borne	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sounds	det
28	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 borne	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 bell	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bell	det
31	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bell	amod
32	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sounds	nmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 distinctness	case
34	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 distinctness	amod
35	distinctness	distinctness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bell	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	the sun			gloriously property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	confirm	past · perfect · passive		the children			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	go out	past	the children	the town			tree rules
4	bear	past · passive	the children not said here	the sounds of the unknown bell with wonderful distinctness	the wood	towards branches = branch	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: sound=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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