Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 26
In reality the bell does not exist; it is only a fancy that people have taken into their heads!”
Who acts: bell · What happens: not exist, be, take · To what, where: reality, fancy, heads
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 (bell), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 reality | case |
| 2 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exist | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bell | det |
| 4 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exist | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 exist | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 exist | advmod |
| 7 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 fancy | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fancy | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fancy | cop |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 fancy | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fancy | det |
| 13 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exist | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taken | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fancy | acl:relcl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 heads | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heads | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taken | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 exist | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 exist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not exist | present · do-support | the bell | reality | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reality=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Bell | a fancy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | present · perfect · passive | a fancy | People's heads | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into head=Destination |
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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