Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 27
It had chimed for weddings and for christenings; it had tolled for funerals, and to give the alarm in case of fire.
What happens: chime, toll, give · To what, where: world, alarm, case
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: 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 | 3 chimed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chimed | aux |
| 3 | chimed | chime | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 weddings | case |
| 5 | weddings | wedding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chimed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 christenings | cc |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 christenings | case |
| 8 | christenings | christening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weddings | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tolled | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tolled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tolled | aux |
| 12 | tolled | toll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chimed | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 funerals | case |
| 14 | funerals | funeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tolled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chimed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 alarm | det |
| 20 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 case | case |
| 22 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 case | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chime | past · perfect · passive | world | for weddings and christenings | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | toll | past · perfect · passive | world | for funerals | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | the alarm | case of fire | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=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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