Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 9
Once the Bell hung in the church tower; but now there is no trace left of the tower or of the church, which was called St. Alban's.
Who acts: trace · What happens: hang, be, leave, call · To what, where: church tower, trace, church · 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 (trace), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 Bell | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bell | det |
| 3 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obl |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tower | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tower | compound |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 is | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 is | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hung | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 trace | det |
| 15 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 trace | acl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tower | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 church | cc |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 church | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 church | det |
| 23 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tower | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 called | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 church | acl:relcl |
| 28 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Alban | nmod:desc |
| 29 | Alban | Alban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Alban | case |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the church tower | once the Bell | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no trace | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | participle | no trace not said here | of the tower or the church | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of tower=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | call | past · passive | the church | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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