Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 46

The wind roars in upon it through windows and loopholes; and the wind knows everything, for he gets it from the air, which encircles all things, and the church bell understands his tongue, and rings it out into the world, 'Ding-dong! ding-dong!'

Who acts: wind, air, church bell · What happens: roar, know, get, encircle, understand, ring out · To what, where: air, everything, things, tongue, world

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 (wind, air, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roars	nsubj
3	roars	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 roars	obl
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 windows	case
8	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roars	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 loopholes	cc
10	loopholes	loophole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 windows	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 knows	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knows	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knows	nsubj
15	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 roars	parataxis
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 knows	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gets	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 gets	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gets	nsubj
20	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 knows	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gets	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gets	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 encircles	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 encircles	nsubj
27	encircles	encircle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 air	acl:relcl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 things	det
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 encircles	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 understands	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 understands	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bell	det
33	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bell	compound
34	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 understands	nsubj
35	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 knows	conj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 tongue	nmod:poss
37	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 understands	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rings	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 rings	cc
40	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 roars	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 rings	obj
42	out	out	ADP	_	40 rings	compound:prt
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 world	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 world	det
45	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rings	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 dong	punct
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	50 dong	punct
48	Ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 dong	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 Ding	punct
50	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rings	parataxis
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	54 dong	punct
52	ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 dong	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 ding	punct
54	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 dong	appos
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	54 dong	punct
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	54 dong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roar	present	the wind		air	through windows and loopholes	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
2	know	present	the wind	everything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	get	present	wind	air	the air		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from air=Source
4	encircle	present	the air	all things			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme
5	understand	present	the church bell	wind's tongue			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tongue=Stimulus
6	ring out	present	the wind not said here	air	the world		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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