Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 47

No death is there--life reigns yonder; we hear it on the notes that swell onward like the tones of the church organ, which seize us like sounds from the elf-hill, like the songs of Ossian, like the rushing swoop of the wandering spirits' wings.

Who acts: death, life, we, notes, church organ, Ossian · What happens: be, reign, hear, swell, seize, rush · To what, where: life, notes, us, elf hill, church organ

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, life, we, notes), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 death	det
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 reigns	parataxis
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reigns	nsubj
7	reigns	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	7 reigns	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 hear	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
11	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reigns	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hear	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 notes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 notes	det
15	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hear	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 swell	nsubj
17	swell	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 notes	acl:relcl
18	onward	onward	ADV	_	17 swell	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 tones	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tones	det
21	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 swell	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 organ	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 organ	det
24	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 organ	compound
25	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tones	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seize	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 seize	nsubj
28	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 organ	acl:relcl
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 seize	obj
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 sounds	case
31	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seize	obl
32	from	from	ADP	_	36 hill	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hill	det
34	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hill	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 elf	punct
36	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seize	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 songs	punct
38	like	like	ADP	_	40 songs	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 songs	det
40	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seize	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 Ossian	case
42	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 songs	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 swoop	punct
44	like	like	ADP	_	47 swoop	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 swoop	det
46	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 swoop	amod
47	swoop	swoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 songs	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	53 wings	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 spirits	det
50	wandering	wandering	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 spirits	compound
51	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 wings	nmod:poss
52	'	's	PART	_	51 spirits	case
53	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 swoop	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reigns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	no death			there property	tree rules
2	reign	present	life			yonder property	tree rules
3	hear	present	we	life	the notes		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	swell	present	the notes			like the tones of the church organ; onward property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	seize	present	the church organ	us	the elf hill	like sounds; like the songs of Ossian and the rushing swoop of the wandering spirits's wings	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent we=Theme from hill=Source
6	rush	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	intonate			the church organ			nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	sing		Ossian				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent
9	swoop		the wandering spirits's wings				nom swoop «communication intransitive»: of=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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