Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 5
It was as if the tones came from a church in the still forest; people looked thitherward, and felt their minds attuned most solemnly.
Who acts: sound, people, minds · What happens: be, look, feel, attune, mind · To what, where: church
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 (sound, people, minds), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | cop |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tones | det |
| 6 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 church | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 church | det |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 forest | advmod |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 18 | thitherward | thitherward | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 felt | cc |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 minds | nmod:poss |
| 23 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 attuned | nsubj |
| 24 | attuned | attune | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 felt | ccomp |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 solemnly | advmod |
| 26 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 24 attuned | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sound | a church | in the forest; come property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | people | thitherward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | people not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | attune | past | People's minds | solemnly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mind | People | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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