Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 26

"Into the tower came also the dapper man-servant of the bishop; and when I, the Bell, who am made of metal, rang hard and loud, and swung to and fro, I might have beaten out his brains.

Who acts: Bell · What happens: come, make, ring, swing, beat out · To what, where: dapper man servant, tower, Bell, brains

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 (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	_	5 came	punct
2	Into	into	ADP	_	4 tower	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tower	det
4	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	also	also	ADV	_	11 servant	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 servant	det
8	dapper	dapper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 servant	compound
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 servant	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
11	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bishop	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bishop	det
14	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 servant	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Bell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Bell	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 Bell	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 Bell	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Bell	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Bell	det
21	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 made	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux:pass
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 Bell	acl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 metal	case
27	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rang	punct
29	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	conj
30	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rang	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 loud	cc
32	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hard	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 swung	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 swung	cc
35	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rang	parataxis
36	to	to	ADP	_	35 swung	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 beaten	cc
38	fro	fro	INTJ	_	43 beaten	discourse
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fro	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 beaten	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 beaten	aux
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 beaten	aux
43	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 swung	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 beaten	compound:prt
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 brains	nmod:poss
46	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 beaten	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past		the dapper man servant of the bishop	the tower		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tower=Initial_Location
2	make in a quote	present · passive		the Bell		of metal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	ring in a quote	past				hard property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	swing in a quote	past					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	beat out in a quote	might · perfect	the Bell = bell	monk's brains			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brain=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: «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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