Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 35
The long stems twined round the gable, on which there hung a small bell.
Who acts: long stems · What happens: twine, hang · To what, where: long stems, gable, small bell
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 (long stems), 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 | 3 stems | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stems | amod |
| 3 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hung | nsubj |
| 4 | twined | twine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stems | acl |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 gable | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gable | det |
| 7 | gable | gable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 twined | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hung | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hung | obl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 hung | advmod |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bell | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bell | amod |
| 15 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twine | participle | the long stems not said here | the gable | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round gable=Destination | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | the long stems | a small bell | there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bell=Theme on which=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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