Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 114

It sounds like a wail--it sounds like a sentence of wrath and condemnation, that must be heard far over the land, carried by the wind--sung by the wind--the wail that sometimes is silent, but never dies; for ever again it rises in song, singing even into our own time this legend of the Bishop of Borglum and his hard nephew.

Who acts: incense, wail · What happens: sound, hear, carry, sing, be, not die · To what, where: that, song, wrath

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incense, wail), 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 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 wail	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wail	det
5	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	obl
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 sounds	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sounds	nsubj
8	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sounds	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 sentence	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sentence	det
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounds	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 wrath	case
13	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sentence	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 condemnation	cc
15	condemnation	condemnation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrath	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 heard	nsubj:pass
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 heard	aux:pass
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sentence	conj
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 heard	advmod
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 land	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 land	det
24	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 far	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carried	punct
26	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 heard	parataxis
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 wind	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wind	det
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obl
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 sung	punct
31	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 carried	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 wind	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wind	det
34	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sung	obl
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 wail	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wail	det
37	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wind	appos
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 silent	nsubj
39	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 silent	advmod
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 silent	cop
41	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 wail	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dies	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 dies	cc
44	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	45 dies	advmod
45	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sounds	conj
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 rises	punct
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 again	case
48	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	49 again	advmod
49	again	again	ADV	_	51 rises	advmod
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 rises	nsubj
51	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sounds	conj
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 song	case
53	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 rises	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 singing	punct
55	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 rises	advcl
56	even	even	ADV	_	60 time	advmod
57	into	into	ADP	_	60 time	case
58	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 time	nmod:poss
59	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 time	amod
60	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 singing	obl
61	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	62 legend	det
62	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 time	conj
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 Bishop	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 Bishop	det
65	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 legend	nmod
66	of	of	ADP	_	67 Borglum	case
67	Borglum	Borglum	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 Bishop	nmod
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 nephew	cc
69	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 nephew	nmod:poss
70	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 nephew	amod
71	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 Bishop	conj
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sounds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	incense				like a wail	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	sound	present	incense				like a sentence of wrath and condemnation	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	hear	must · passive		that			far property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	carry	participle					by the wind	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sing speech: express	participle					by the wind	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=Location
6	is	present	the wail				silent, sometimes property	tree rules
7	not die	present	incense not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	rise	present	incense		song			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in song=Location
9	sing speech: express	gerund	incense not said here			time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	sentence			wrath and condemnation				nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=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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