Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 3

It was like the sound of a church-bell: but it was only heard for a moment, for the rolling of the carriages and the voices of the multitude made too great a noise.

Who acts: sun, multitude, carriages · What happens: be, hear, make, roll · To what, where: sun

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, multitude, carriages), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sound	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 sound	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 bell	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bell	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bell	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 church	punct
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux:pass
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sound	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 moment	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rolling	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 rolling	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rolling	det
23	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 carriages	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 carriages	det
26	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rolling	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 voices	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 voices	det
29	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carriages	conj
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 made	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 multitude	det
32	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	nsubj
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 voices	advcl
34	too	too	ADV	_	35 great	advmod
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 made	xcomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 noise	det
37	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 great	nsubj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sun			like the sound; of a church bell	tree rules
2	hear	past · passive		sun	moment		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	make	past	the multitude			great property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	roll		the carriages and the voices				nom rolling «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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