Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 57

He thought the bell sounded from the depths of these still lakes; but then he remarked again that the tone proceeded not from there, but farther off, from out the depths of the forest.

Who acts: son, bell, tone · What happens: think, sound, remark, not proceed · To what, where: depths · 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 (son, bell, tone), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounded	nsubj
5	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 depths	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 depths	det
8	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sounded	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 lakes	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 lakes	det
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 lakes	advmod
12	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 depths	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 remarked	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 remarked	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 remarked	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remarked	nsubj
17	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 remarked	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 proceeded	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tone	det
21	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 proceeded	nsubj
22	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 remarked	advcl
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 proceeded	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 there	case
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 not	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 farther	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 farther	cc
28	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 remarked	conj
29	off	off	ADV	_	28 farther	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 depths	punct
31	from	from	ADP	_	34 depths	case
32	out	out	ADP	_	34 depths	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 depths	det
34	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 remarked	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 forest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 forest	det
37	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 depths	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	son			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sound	past	the bell	the depths of this lakes		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	remark speech: assert	past	son		then; again	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not proceed	past	the tone			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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