Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 4

Those persons who were walking outside the town, where the houses were farther apart, with gardens or little fields between them, could see the evening sky still better, and heard the sound of the bell much more distinctly.

Who acts: persons, houses · What happens: walk, be, see, hear · To what, where: town, evening sky, sound

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 (persons, houses), 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 persons	det
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 see	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 walking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walking	aux
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 persons	acl:relcl
6	outside	outside	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 apart	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 apart	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 houses	det
12	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 apart	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 apart	cop
14	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 apart	advmod
15	apart	apart	ADV	_	8 town	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 apart	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 gardens	case
18	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walking	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 fields	cc
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fields	amod
21	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gardens	conj
22	between	between	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 persons	punct
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sky	det
28	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sky	compound
29	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obj
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 better	advmod
31	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 see	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 heard	cc
34	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 see	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sound	det
36	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heard	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 bell	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bell	det
39	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sound	nmod
40	much	much	ADV	_	41 more	advmod
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 distinctly	advmod
42	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	34 heard	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	that persons		the town	with gardens or little fields; between houses = house	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside town=Trajectory
2	is	past	the houses			apart, far property	tree rules
3	see	could	that persons	the evening sky		better obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=Stimulus
4	hear	past		the sound of the bell		distinctly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

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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