Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 24

It had been taken down from its high position, in consequence of a crack in the metal which prevented it from ever chiming again, and a new bell now occupied its place.

Who acts: metal, new bell · What happens: take down, prevent, chime, occupy · To what, where: It, high position, grass, place

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 (metal, new 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 taken	aux:pass
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 taken	compound:prt
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 position	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 position	nmod:poss
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 position	amod
9	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 consequence	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 consequence	case
12	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 crack	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crack	det
15	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 consequence	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 metal	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 metal	det
18	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crack	nmod
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 prevented	nsubj
20	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 metal	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 prevented	obj
22	from	from	SCONJ	_	24 chiming	mark
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 chiming	advmod
24	chiming	chime	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 prevented	advcl
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 chiming	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 occupied	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 occupied	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bell	det
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bell	amod
30	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 occupied	nsubj
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 occupied	advmod
32	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	parataxis
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 place	nmod:poss
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 occupied	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take down	past · perfect · passive		It	grass's high position		in consequence of a crack in the metal	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in consequence=Destination
2	prevent	past	the metal	grass				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme
3	chime	gerund	the metal not said here			ever; again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	occupy	past	a new bell	grass's place		now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer

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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