Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 37
Yes, everybody was unanimous on the subject, except one, who said that the bell was too small and too fine to be heard at so great a distance, and besides it was very different tones to those that could move a human heart in such a manner.
Who acts: everybody, bell, different tones · What happens: be, say, hear, move · To what, where: subject, human heart, manner · 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 (everybody, bell, different tones), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 unanimous | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 unanimous | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unanimous | cop |
| 5 | unanimous | unanimous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 subject | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 subject | det |
| 8 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unanimous | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 unanimous | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unanimous | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 small | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bell | det |
| 17 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 small | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 small | cop |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 small | advmod |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fine | cc |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 fine | advmod |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 small | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 heard | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 heard | aux:pass |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 fine | advcl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 great | case |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 great | advmod |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 heard | xcomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 distance | det |
| 31 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 great | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 tones | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 tones | cc |
| 34 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 39 tones | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 tones | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 tones | cop |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 different | advmod |
| 38 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tones | amod |
| 39 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 those | case |
| 41 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 tones | nmod |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 move | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 move | aux |
| 44 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 tones | acl:relcl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 heart | det |
| 46 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 heart | amod |
| 47 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 move | obj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 manner | case |
| 49 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 51 manner | det:predet |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 manner | det |
| 51 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 move | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unanimous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everybody | the subject | except one; unanimous property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the bell | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the bell not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive · passive | the bell not said here | great property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Bell | besides different tones; to those | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | move | could | different tones | a human heart | such manner | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
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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