Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 132

They are addressed in the language of their country, and the piano sounds for them with melodies of their native land; and before these have died away, the chord has been struck, the wire of thought that reaches to the land of the sufferers announces that they are rescued.

Who acts: piano, these, thought · What happens: address, sound, die away, strike, reach, announce · To what, where: rooms, language, chord · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (piano, these, thought), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 addressed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 addressed	aux:pass
3	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 language	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 language	det
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 addressed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 country	nmod:poss
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 language	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sounds	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sounds	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 piano	det
13	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sounds	nsubj
14	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 addressed	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sounds	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 melodies	case
18	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sounds	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 land	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 land	nmod:poss
21	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 land	amod
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 melodies	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 died	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 died	cc
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 died	mark
26	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 died	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 died	aux
28	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 addressed	conj
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 died	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 struck	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 chord	det
32	chord	chord	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 struck	nsubj:pass
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 struck	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 struck	aux:pass
35	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 announces	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wire	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wire	det
38	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 struck	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 thought	case
40	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wire	nmod
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 reaches	nsubj
42	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 thought	acl:relcl
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 land	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 land	det
45	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 reaches	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 sufferers	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sufferers	det
48	sufferers	sufferer	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 land	nmod
49	announces	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 addressed	parataxis
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 rescued	mark
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 rescued	nsubj:pass
52	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 rescued	aux:pass
53	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 announces	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 addressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	address	present · passive		rooms = room	the language of rooms's country		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	sound	present	the piano			for rooms = room; with melodies of rooms's native land	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with melody=Theme
3	die away	present · perfect	these			away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	strike	present · perfect · passive		the chord		the wire of thought obl	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	reach	present	thought			to the land of the sufferers	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	announce speech: other	present					vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	rescue	present · passive		rooms = room			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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