Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 66

And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing, and his heart sang with the rest: all nature was a vast holy church, in which the trees and the buoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grass the velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the large cupola.

Who acts: wood, heart, nature, vast holy church, velvet, heaven · What happens: sing, be, carpet, cupola · To what, where: song, vast holy church, pillars, grass

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 (wood, heart, nature, vast holy church), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 sang	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wood	det
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sea	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wood	conj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 song	det
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 rejoicing	case
11	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 song	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sang	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sang	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heart	nmod:poss
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sang	nsubj
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sang	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 rest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sang	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 church	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 nature	det
22	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 church	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 church	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 church	det
25	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 church	amod
26	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 church	amod
27	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pillars	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 pillars	nsubj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 trees	det
32	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 pillars	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 clouds	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 clouds	det
35	buoyant	buoyant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 clouds	amod
36	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 trees	conj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 pillars	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pillars	det
39	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 church	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 flowers	punct
41	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 pillars	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 grass	cc
43	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 church	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 velvet	det
45	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 carpeting	nsubj
46	carpeting	carpet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 grass	acl:relcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 cupola	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 cupola	cc
49	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 cupola	nsubj
50	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	49 heaven	nmod:unmarked
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 cupola	det
52	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 cupola	amod
53	cupola	cupola	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	parataxis
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the wood and the sea	a song of rejoicing		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	wood's heart		with the rest	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rest=Theme
3	is a	past	all nature	a vast holy church and the pillars and flowers and grass		tree rules
4	is a	past	a vast holy church and the pillars and flowers and grass	the pillars and flowers		tree rules
5	carpet	gerund	the velvet	grass not said here		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent grass=Destination
6	cupola		heaven heaven			tree rules
7	sing		rejoicing			nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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