Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 59

Beautiful flowers, round which little bells were tied, stood in the corridors: what with the running to and fro and the draught, these bells tinkled so loudly that no one could speak to be heard.

Who acts: Beautiful flowers, one · What happens: tie, stand, fro, tinkle, speak, hear · To what, where: little bells, corridors, bells · 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 (Beautiful flowers, one), 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	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flowers	amod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tied	punct
4	round	round	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tied	obl
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bells	amod
7	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tied	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tied	aux:pass
9	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flowers	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 flowers	punct
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 corridors	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 corridors	det
14	corridors	corridor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 stood	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 running	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 running	det
19	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	16 what	case
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fro	cc
22	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 what	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 draught	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 draught	det
25	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bells	punct
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 bells	det
28	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 what	appos
29	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 bells	acl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 loudly	advmod
31	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	29 tinkled	advmod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 speak	mark
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 speak	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 speak	aux
36	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tinkled	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	39 heard	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 heard	aux:pass
39	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 speak	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie	past · passive		little bells		round Beautiful flowers	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	stand	past	Beautiful flowers		the corridors		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corridor=Location
3	fro	infinitive	Beautiful flowers not said here				tree rules
4	tinkle	participle		this bells not said here		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	speak speech: other	could	no one				tree rules
6	hear	to-infinitive · passive	no one not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»

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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