Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 6

"It was the City of the Dead; only Vesuvius thundered forth his everlasting hymn, each separate verse of which is called by men an eruption.

Who acts: dog, City, men · What happens: be, thunder, call, hymn · To what, where: City, everlasting hymn, separate verse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, City, men), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 City	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 City	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 City	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 City	det
5	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 thundered	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Dead	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Dead	det
8	Dead	Dead	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 City	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 thundered	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 thundered	advmod
11	Vesuvius	Vesuvius	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 thundered	nsubj
12	thundered	thunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	forth	forth	ADV	_	12 thundered	advmod
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hymn	nmod:poss
15	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hymn	compound
16	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thundered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 verse	punct
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 verse	det
19	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 verse	amod
20	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hymn	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 called	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 called	aux:pass
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 verse	acl:relcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 men	case
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 called	obl
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 eruption	det
28	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thundered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	dog	the City	of the Dead	tree rules
2	thunder in a quote	past	the City	city's everlasting hymn	forth property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hymn=Theme
3	call in a quote	present · passive	men	each separate verse		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
4	hymn in a quote		city			nom hymn «communication intransitive»: 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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