Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 5
Opposite the old nunnery is the deepest place, which is called the "bell-deep," and there dwells the old water spirit, the "Au-mann."
What happens: be, call, dwell · To what, where: deepest place, old water spirit · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 4 nunnery | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nunnery | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nunnery | amod |
| 4 | nunnery | nunnery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 place | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deep | det |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 deep | punct |
| 15 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deep | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bell | punct |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 deep | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 deep | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dwells | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 dwells | expl |
| 22 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 spirit | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 spirit | amod |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spirit | compound |
| 26 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dwells | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 mann | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 mann | det |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 mann | punct |
| 30 | Au | Au | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 mann | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Au | punct |
| 32 | mann | Mann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 place | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the deepest place | opposite the old nunnery | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the deepest place | deep property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | dwell | present | the old water spirit | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme spirit=Location |
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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