Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 117

And not only to the ear of superstition is the sighing and the tread of hurrying feet audible in the long echoing passages leading to the convent door that has long been locked.

Who acts: superstition, tread, long echoing passages · What happens: be, hurry, lead, lock · To what, where: feet, convent door

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 (superstition, tread, long echoing passages), 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	_	6 ear	cc
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ear	advmod
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 ear	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 ear	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ear	det
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 sighing	case
8	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sighing	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sighing	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sighing	det
11	sighing	sighing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ear	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tread	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tread	det
14	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sighing	conj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 hurrying	mark
16	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 tread	acl
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hurrying	obj
18	audible	audible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hurrying	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 passages	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 passages	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 passages	amod
22	echoing	echoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passages	compound
23	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 audible	obl
24	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 passages	acl
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
27	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 door	compound
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leading	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 locked	obl
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 locked	aux
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 locked	advmod
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 locked	aux:pass
33	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 door	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	superstition		of the sighing and the tread	tree rules
2	hurry	gerund	the tread not said here	feet	audible property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Agent
3	lead	gerund	the long echoing passages not said here		to the convent door	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to door=Patient
4	lock	present · perfect · passive		the convent door	long property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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