Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 56
It is around us, it is in us, it talks of our thoughts and of our deeds, and it speaks longer of them than does the Bell down in the depths of the Odense-Au where the Au-mann dwells.
Who acts: heed, our · What happens: be, talk, speak, do, bell down, think · To what, where: depths · 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 (heed, our), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 us | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 us | cop |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 us | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 us | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 us | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 us | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 talks | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 talks | nsubj |
| 12 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 us | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 thoughts | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 talks | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 deeds | cc |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 deeds | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 19 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thoughts | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 speaks | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 speaks | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 speaks | nsubj |
| 23 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 talks | conj |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 speaks | advmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 longer | obl |
| 27 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 28 does | mark |
| 28 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 speaks | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Bell | det |
| 30 | Bell | bell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 does | xcomp |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 Bell | compound:prt |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 depths | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 depths | det |
| 34 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Bell | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Au | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Au | det |
| 37 | Odense | Odense | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Au | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Odense | punct |
| 39 | Au | Au | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 depths | nmod |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 Au | nmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 dwells | det |
| 42 | Au | Au | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 mann | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Au | punct |
| 44 | mann | Mann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 dwells | compound |
| 45 | dwells | dwell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 where | nsubj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 us | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | heed | around us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | heed | in us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | present | heed | of our thoughts and our deeds | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present | heed | long property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | present | heed not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | bell down | infinitive | heed not said here | the depths of the Odense Au | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | think | our | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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