Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 66
Within sounded a psalm; a coffin, decked with flowers, was borne forth.
Who acts: Within · What happens: sound, deck, bear · To what, where: psalm, coffin
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Within), 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 | Within | Within | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sounded | nsubj |
| 2 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 psalm | det |
| 4 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sounded | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 coffin | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coffin | det |
| 7 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sounded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 decked | punct |
| 9 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 coffin | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 flowers | case |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 decked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 borne | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 borne | aux:pass |
| 14 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sounded | conj |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 borne | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | Within | a psalm | a coffin obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme | |||
| 2 | deck | participle | a coffin not said here | with flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | Within not said here | forth property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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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