Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 57
It rings it out in the vault of heaven, far, far out, forever and ever, till the heaven bells sound "Ding-dong! ding-dong!"
Who acts: Au, heaven · What happens: ring out, bell · To what, where: tongue, vault, sound
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 (Au, heaven), 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 | 2 rings | nsubj |
| 2 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rings | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 rings | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vault | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vault | det |
| 7 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rings | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 heaven | case |
| 9 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vault | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 out | punct |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 out | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 out | punct |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 out | advmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 rings | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forever | punct |
| 16 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 14 out | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ever | cc |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 forever | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bells | punct |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 bells | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heaven | det |
| 22 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bells | nsubj |
| 23 | bells | bell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rings | conj |
| 24 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bells | obj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 dong | punct |
| 26 | Ding | ding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dong | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Ding | punct |
| 28 | dong | dong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bells | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 dong | punct |
| 30 | ding | ding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dong | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 dong | punct |
| 32 | dong | dong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dong | appos |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 dong | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 dong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring out | present | Au | tongue | the vault of heaven | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | bell | present | the heaven | sound | Ding dong obl | 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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