Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 37

Little bells were hung all round it; and when the pot was boiling, these bells tinkled in the most charming manner, and played the old melody,

Who acts: pot · What happens: hang, boil, tinkle, charm, play · To what, where: Little bells, bells, charming manner, old melody

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bells	amod
2	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hung	aux:pass
4	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 it	advmod
6	round	round	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hung	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 boiling	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 boiling	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 boiling	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pot	det
12	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boiling	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 boiling	aux
14	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hung	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bells	punct
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 bells	det
17	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	obl
18	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 bells	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 manner	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 manner	det
21	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 charming	advmod
22	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 manner	amod
23	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tinkled	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 played	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 played	cc
26	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hung	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 melody	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 melody	amod
29	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 played	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past · passive		Little bells		round pot; this bells obl	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	boil	past · progressive	the pot				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	tinkle	participle		this bells not said here	the charming manner		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location
4	charm	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	play	past		the old melody			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melody=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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