Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 29
I may sing of everything that is kept concealed behind lock and bars.
Who acts: I · What happens: sing, keep, conceal · To what, where: lock
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sing | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | aux |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 everything | case |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 sing | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | aux:pass |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 everything | acl:relcl |
| 9 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 kept | xcomp |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 lock | case |
| 11 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concealed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bars | cc |
| 13 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lock | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | may | I | of everything | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | keep | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | conceal | participle | lock and bars | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind lock=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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