Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 99
And the organ pealed, and the children's voices in the choir sounded so sweet and soft!
Who acts: organ, voices · What happens: peal, sound
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 (organ, voices), 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 | _ | 4 pealed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 organ | det |
| 3 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pealed | nsubj |
| 4 | pealed | peal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sounded | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sounded | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 children | det |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 voices | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 children | case |
| 10 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sounded | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 choir | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 choir | det |
| 13 | choir | choir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voices | nmod |
| 14 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pealed | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 sweet | advmod |
| 16 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sounded | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 soft | cc |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sweet | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 pealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peal | past | the organ | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sound | past | the children's voices in the choir | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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