Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 52
"It sounds like tiny glass bells," said the lord-in-waiting, "and see how her little throat works.
Who acts: voice, little throat · What happens: sound, say, see, work · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (voice, little throat), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounds | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sounds | nsubj |
| 3 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 bells | case |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bells | amod |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bells | compound |
| 7 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bells | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bells | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sounds | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 waiting | det |
| 12 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waiting | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 waiting | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 waiting | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 waiting | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 waiting | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 works | advmod |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 throat | nmod:poss |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 throat | amod |
| 24 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 works | nsubj |
| 25 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound in a quote | present | voice | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | like tiny glass bells | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | work in a quote | present | waiting's little throat | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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