Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 28
Now I may sing it out aloud, though at other times I may not whisper it.
Who acts: I · What happens: sing out, not whisper · To what, where: instrument
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), 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 sing | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sing | aux |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sing | compound:prt |
| 7 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 4 sing | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whisper | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 whisper | mark |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 whisper | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 whisper | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 whisper | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 whisper | advmod |
| 16 | whisper | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sing | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 whisper | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing out speech: express | may | I | instrument | now | aloud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||
| 2 | not whisper speech: assert | may | I | instrument | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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