Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 52

But the schoolmaster says that there was not any bell that rung down there, for that it could not do so; and that no Au-mann dwelt yonder, for there was no Au-mann at all!

Who acts: schoolmaster, bell, Au mann · What happens: say, not be, ring, not do, dwell, be · To what, where: bell, Au mann, all · 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: who acts (schoolmaster, bell, Au mann), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 says	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 schoolmaster	det
3	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 bell	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bell	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 bell	advmod
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 bell	det
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 rung	nsubj
12	rung	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bell	acl:relcl
13	down	down	ADV	_	14 there	advmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 rung	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 do	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 do	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 do	advmod
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 rung	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 dwelt	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dwelt	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 dwelt	mark
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 mann	det
27	Au	Au	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 mann	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Au	punct
29	mann	Mann	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 dwelt	nsubj
30	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
31	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	30 dwelt	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 was	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 was	mark
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 mann	cop
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 mann	det
37	Au	Au	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 mann	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Au	punct
39	mann	Mann	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 dwelt	obl
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 all	case
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 mann	nmod
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the schoolmaster				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past		any bell			tree rules
3	ring	past	any bell		there		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not do	could	schoolmaster				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dwell	past	no Au mann			yonder property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past		no Au mann	all		tree rules

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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