Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 42
This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his humble dress, for the bell sounded with so deep a tone, and with such strange power, that proceed he must.
Who acts: that · What happens: do, go on, sound, proceed · To what, where: This, wooden shoes
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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 going | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 going | advmod |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 done | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 going | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 shoes | case |
| 12 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shoes | amod |
| 13 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 going | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dress | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dress | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dress | nmod:poss |
| 17 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dress | amod |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sounded | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 bell | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bell | det |
| 22 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sounded | obl |
| 23 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 deep | case |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 deep | advmod |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sounded | xcomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tone | det |
| 28 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 deep | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 proceed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 proceed | cc |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 power | case |
| 32 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 power | amod |
| 33 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 power | amod |
| 34 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 proceed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 proceed | punct |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 proceed | nsubj |
| 37 | proceed | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 must | nsubj |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 proceed | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go on | past · progressive | wooden shoes and son's humble dress | now | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shoe=Location | ||||
| 3 | sound | past | for the bell; deep property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | proceed | present | that | with such strange power | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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