Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 34

Not even now, for the bell is ringing and singing its loud Ding-dong, ding-dong!'

Who acts: bell · What happens: not ring, sing · To what, where: loud Ding dong

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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 ringing	advmod
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 now	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 ringing	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ringing	punct
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 ringing	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bell	det
7	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ringing	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ringing	aux
9	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 singing	cc
11	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 ringing	conj
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dong	nmod:poss
13	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dong	amod
14	Ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dong	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Ding	punct
16	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 singing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dong	punct
18	ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dong	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 ding	punct
20	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dong	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 ringing	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 ringing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ring	present · progressive	the bell				now		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the bell not said here	instrument's loud Ding dong and ding dong					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dong=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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