Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 8

And the horn sounded faint and more faintly, and the convent bell drowned its expiring echoes."

Who acts: horn, convent bell · What happens: sound, drown, expire · To what, where: expiring echoes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horn, convent bell), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sounded	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horn	det
3	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounded	nsubj
4	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sounded	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 faintly	cc
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 faintly	advmod
8	faintly	faintly	ADV	_	5 faint	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drowned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drowned	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bell	det
12	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bell	compound
13	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drowned	nsubj
14	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sounded	conj
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 echoes	nmod:poss
16	expiring	expire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 echoes	amod
17	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drowned	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sounded	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	past	the horn		faint property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	drown	past	the convent bell	horn's expiring echoes		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient
3	expire	gerund				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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