Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 7
The bell has a tone that is wondrous sweet; let us stroll thither, and examine the matter nearer.”
Who acts: bell, tone, us · What happens: have, be, let, stroll, examine · To what, where: tone, us, matter
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 (bell, tone, us), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bell | det |
| 2 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tone | det |
| 5 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sweet | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sweet | cop |
| 8 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sweet | amod |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tone | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | stroll | stroll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 13 stroll | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 examine | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 examine | cc |
| 17 | examine | examine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 examine | obj |
| 20 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 examine | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the bell | a tone | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a tone | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stroll | infinitive | us not said here | thither property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | examine | infinitive | the matter | near property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme |
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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