Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 69

They ran towards each other, and stood together hand in hand in the vast church of nature and of poetry, while over them sounded the invisible holy bell: blessed spirits floated around them, and lifted up their voices in a rejoicing hallelujah!

Who acts: stars · What happens: run, stand together, sound, float, lift up, rejoice · To what, where: each, hand, invisible holy bell, blessed spirits, voices, rejoicing hallelujah

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 (stars), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 ran	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stood	cc
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 stood	advmod
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl:unmarked
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 hand	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 church	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 church	det
15	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 church	amod
16	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 nature	case
18	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 church	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 poetry	cc
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 poetry	case
21	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nature	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sounded	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 sounded	mark
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sounded	obl
26	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bell	det
28	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bell	amod
29	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bell	amod
30	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sounded	obj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 spirits	punct
32	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 spirits	amod
33	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bell	appos
34	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 spirits	acl
35	around	around	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 floated	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 lifted	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 lifted	cc
39	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 lifted	compound:prt
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 voices	nmod:poss
42	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lifted	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 hallelujah	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 hallelujah	det
45	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 hallelujah	amod
46	hallelujah	hallelujah	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lifted	obl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	stars = star		each		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards each=Destination
2	stand together	past	stars = star not said here	hand	hand	in the vast church of nature and poetry; together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location
3	sound	past		the invisible holy bell		over stars = star	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
4	float	participle		blessed spirits not said here		around stars = star	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Trajectory
5	lift up	past	stars = star not said here	stars's voices	a rejoicing hallelujah		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme in hallelujah=Destination
6	rejoice	gerund					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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