Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 12
Now I'll retire to rest!" sang the Bell, and flew down into the Odense-Au, where it is deepest; and that is why the place is called the "bell-deep."
Who acts: I, Bell, that · What happens: retire, rest, sing, fly down, be, call · To what, where: Bell, Odense Au, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, Bell, that), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 retire | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 retire | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 retire | aux |
| 4 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sang | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rest | mark |
| 6 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 retire | xcomp |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 retire | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 retire | punct |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bell | det |
| 11 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sang | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sang | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 flew | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 Au | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Au | det |
| 18 | Odense | Odense | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Au | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Odense | punct |
| 20 | Au | Au | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 deepest | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 deepest | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 deepest | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 deepest | cop |
| 25 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 Au | appos |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 why | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 why | cc |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 why | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 why | cop |
| 30 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 sang | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 place | det |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 called | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 called | aux:pass |
| 34 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 why | advcl:relcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 deep | det |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 deep | punct |
| 37 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 deep | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 bell | punct |
| 39 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 called | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sang | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | future | I | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | the Bell | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fly down in a quote | past | into the Odense Au result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into au=Result | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Bell | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | call in a quote | present · passive | the place | deep property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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