Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 31

“That surely cannot be the bell,” said one of the children, lying down and listening.

Who acts: That · What happens: not be, say, lie down, listen · To what, where: bell, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 bell	nsubj
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	8 bell	advmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bell	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bell	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 bell	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bell	det
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bell	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 bell	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 said	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lying	punct
17	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 lying	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 listening	cc
20	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lying	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	can	That	the bell	surely property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		one of the children		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	lie down	gerund			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	listen	gerund				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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