Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 37
The old church bell had long been quite forgotten, and no one imagined it would ever again be sent to the melting furnace to make it as it was before.
Who acts: one, hair · What happens: forget, imagine, send, make, be · To what, where: old church bell, hair, melting furnace
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, hair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bell | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bell | amod |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bell | compound |
| 4 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgotten | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 forgotten | aux |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 forgotten | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 forgotten | advmod |
| 9 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 imagined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 imagined | cc |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 imagined | nsubj |
| 14 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 forgotten | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | aux |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 again | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 sent | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sent | aux:pass |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 imagined | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 furnace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 furnace | det |
| 23 | melting | melting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 furnace | compound |
| 24 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 make | mark |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sent | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 before | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 before | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 before | cop |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 make | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect · passive | the old church bell | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | imagine | past | no one | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | would · passive | hair | the melting furnace | again | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to furnace=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||||
| 5 | is | past | hair | before property | tree rules |
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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