Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 15
Ah, indeed, there was no one who thought or supposed, not even the old church bell which had been the first to sound and chime for him, that he would be the first to sing the beautiful song of "The Bell."
Who acts: one, old church bell, boy, Bell · What happens: be, think, suppose, sound, sing · To what, where: one, old church bell, beautiful song · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, old church bell, boy, Bell), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 was | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 supposed | cc |
| 12 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bell | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 bell | advmod |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 bell | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bell | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bell | amod |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bell | compound |
| 19 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 supposed | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 first | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 first | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 first | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 first | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 bell | appos |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 sound | mark |
| 26 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 first | acl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 chime | cc |
| 28 | chime | chime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sound | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 chime | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 first | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 first | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 first | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 first | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 first | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 first | det |
| 37 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 supposed | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 sing | mark |
| 39 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 first | acl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 song | det |
| 41 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 song | amod |
| 42 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sing | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Bell | case |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 Bell | punct |
| 45 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Bell | det |
| 46 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 song | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | no one | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suppose | participle | the old church bell | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent bell=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | the old church bell | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sound | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | is | would | boy | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | the beautiful song of the Bell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||||
| 8 | sing | the Bell | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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