Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 59

It was still in the woods, so very still; and he fell on his knees, sung his evening hymn, and said: “I cannot find what I seek; the sun is going down, and night is coming--the dark, dark night.

Who acts: sun, tone, knees, night · What happens: be, fall, sing, say, not find, seek · To what, where: woods, knees, evening hymn · 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 (sun, tone, knees, night), 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	6 woods	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woods	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	6 woods	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 still	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 still	advmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 still	advmod
10	still	still	ADV	_	6 woods	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woods	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 knees	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 knees	nmod:poss
17	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sung	punct
19	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 knees	acl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hymn	nmod:poss
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hymn	compound
22	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sung	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fell	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 find	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 find	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 find	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 find	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 find	advmod
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 seek	obj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 seek	nsubj
34	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 find	ccomp
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 going	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sun	det
37	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 going	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 going	aux
39	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fell	advcl
40	down	down	ADV	_	39 going	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 coming	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 coming	cc
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 coming	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 coming	aux
45	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 going	parataxis
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	51 night	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 night	det
48	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 night	amod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 dark	punct
50	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 night	amod
51	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 going	obl:unmarked
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 woods	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sun		the woods	still; still		tree rules
2	fall	past	tone		tone's knees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
3	sing speech: express	participle	tone's knees not said here	tone's evening hymn				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	tone not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not find in a quote	can	tone					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	seek in a quote	present	tone					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
7	go down in a quote	present · progressive	the sun			night	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	come in a quote	present · progressive	night					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	hymn		tone					nom hymn «communication intransitive»: 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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