Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 45

Now I hear it, tinkling like little church bells."

Who acts: I · What happens: hear, tinkle · To what, where: permission

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hear	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tinkling	punct
6	tinkling	tinkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hear	advcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 bells	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bells	amod
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bells	compound
10	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tinkling	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I	permission			now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	tinkle	gerund	I not said here					like little church bells	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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