Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 47
"But it was too much for me to hear and to know; I was not able any longer to ring it out.
Who acts: air, crows · What happens: be, hear, know, not be, ring out · To what, where: air
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 (air, crows), 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 | _ | 6 much | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 much | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 much | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 much | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 hear | mark |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hear | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hear | mark |
| 10 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 much | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hear | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 able | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 able | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 able | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 able | advmod |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 much | conj |
| 19 | any | any | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 able | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 ring | mark |
| 22 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ring | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 ring | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | air | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | crows = crow | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | crows = crow not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | past | crows = crow | able, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ring out in a quote | to-infinitive | crows = crow not said here | air | 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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