Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 45
"The church bell hangs high, and looks far around, and sees the birds around it, and understands their language.
Who acts: church bell · What happens: hang, look, see, understand · To what, where: birds, air, language
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 (church 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 hangs | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bell | det |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bell | compound |
| 4 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hangs | nsubj |
| 5 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hangs | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looks | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looks | cc |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hangs | conj |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 around | advmod |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 9 looks | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sees | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sees | cc |
| 14 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hangs | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 birds | det |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sees | obj |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sees | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 understands | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 understands | cc |
| 21 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hangs | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 language | nmod:poss |
| 23 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 understands | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang in a quote | present | the church bell | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | present | the church bell not said here | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | the church bell not said here | the birds | air | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | understand in a quote | present | the church bell not said here | birds's language | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |
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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