Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 44

The cries and screams of the savage horde and of the birds sounded through the air, and I joined in it also; for I sang 'Ding-dong! ding-dong!'

Who acts: cries, I, savage horde · What happens: sound, join, sing, cry · To what, where: air, 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 (cries, I, savage horde), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cries	det
2	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sounded	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 screams	cc
4	screams	scream	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cries	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 horde	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horde	det
7	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horde	amod
8	horde	horde	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cries	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 birds	cc
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 birds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 horde	conj
13	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sounded	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 joined	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 joined	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 joined	nsubj
20	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sounded	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 joined	obl
23	also	also	ADV	_	20 joined	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sang	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 sang	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sang	nsubj
27	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sounded	conj
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 dong	punct
29	Ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dong	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Ding	punct
31	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sang	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 dong	punct
33	ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dong	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 ding	punct
35	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sang	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 dong	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 dong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past	the cries of the savage horde and the birds and screams		the air		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
2	join	past	I			in air	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	I	Ding dong		ding dong obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	cry		the savage horde and the birds				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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