Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 10

"Ding-dong! ding-dong!" sounded the Bell, when the tower still stood there; and one evening, while the sun was setting, and the Bell was swinging away bravely, it broke loose and came flying down through the air, the brilliant metal shining in the ruddy beam.

Who acts: Ding dong, tower, sun, Bell, brilliant metal · What happens: sound, stand, set, swing away, break, come · To what, where: Bell, air, ruddy beam

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ding dong, tower, sun, Bell), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dong	punct
2	Ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dong	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Ding	punct
4	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sounded	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 dong	punct
6	ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dong	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 ding	punct
8	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dong	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 dong	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dong	punct
11	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Bell	det
13	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sounded	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 stood	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tower	det
17	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	nsubj
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 stood	advmod
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sounded	conj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stood	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 evening	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 evening	cc
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 evening	nummod
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sounded	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 setting	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 setting	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun	det
28	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 setting	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 setting	aux
30	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 evening	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 swinging	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 swinging	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Bell	det
34	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 swinging	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 swinging	aux
36	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sounded	advcl
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 swinging	advmod
38	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	36 swinging	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 broke	punct
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 broke	nsubj
41	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sounded	parataxis
42	loose	loose	ADV	_	41 broke	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 came	cc
44	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 broke	conj
45	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 came	xcomp
46	down	down	ADV	_	45 flying	advmod
47	through	through	ADP	_	49 air	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 air	det
49	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 flying	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 metal	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 metal	det
52	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 metal	amod
53	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 air	appos
54	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 metal	acl
55	in	in	ADP	_	58 beam	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 beam	det
57	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 beam	amod
58	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 shining	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	Ding dong	the Bell		evening		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
2	stand	past	the tower		there	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set	past · progressive	the sun					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	swing away	past · progressive	the Bell				away, bravely property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	break	past	Bell				loose property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	come	past	Bell not said here					tree rules
7	fly down	gerund	Bell not said here		the air		down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
8	shine	gerund	the brilliant metal not said here		the ruddy beam			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beam=Location

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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