Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 24

The sun shone, the birds sang, and the children sang too, and each held the other by the hand; for as yet they had none of them any high office, and were all of equal rank in the eye of God.

Who acts: sun, birds, children, each · What happens: shine, sing, hold, have · To what, where: other, none

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, birds, children, each), 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	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sang	nsubj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sang	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sang	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sang	nsubj
12	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 sang	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 held	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 held	cc
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 held	nsubj
17	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 held	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hand	det
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 held	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 yet	case
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 yet	advmod
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 had	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	parataxis
29	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	28 had	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 none	nmod
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 office	det
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 office	amod
34	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 all	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 all	cc
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 all	cop
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 had	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 rank	case
40	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rank	amod
41	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 all	nmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 eye	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 eye	det
44	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rank	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 God	case
46	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 eye	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	the birds			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	sing speech: express	past	the children			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	hold	past	each	the other	by the hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent other=Theme by hand=Location
5	have	past	birds = bird	none		tree rules

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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