Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 39
Equally impossible would it have been to believe that the tones of the old bell still echoed in the heart of the boy from Marbach; or that one day they would ring out loud enough and strong enough to be heard all over the world.
Who acts: hair, tones · What happens: have, believe, echo, ring out, hear, intonate · To what, where: heart, world, old bell
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 (hair, tones), 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 | Equally | equally | ADV | _ | 2 impossible | advmod |
| 2 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 impossible | ccomp |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 have | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 believe | mark |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 been | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 echoed | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tones | det |
| 11 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 echoed | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bell | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bell | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bell | amod |
| 15 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tones | nmod |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 echoed | advmod |
| 17 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 believe | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 echoed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 boy | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boy | det |
| 23 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Marbach | case |
| 25 | Marbach | Marbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 boy | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 ring | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 ring | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 ring | mark |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 day | nummod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ring | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 ring | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 ring | aux |
| 33 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 echoed | parataxis |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 ring | compound:prt |
| 35 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 33 ring | advmod |
| 36 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 33 ring | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 strong | cc |
| 38 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 ring | conj |
| 39 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 38 strong | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 heard | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 heard | aux:pass |
| 42 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 strong | advcl |
| 43 | all | all | ADV | _ | 46 world | advmod |
| 44 | over | over | ADP | _ | 46 world | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 world | det |
| 46 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 heard | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | hair not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | echo | past | the tones of the old bell | the heart of the boy from Marbach | still | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location | |||
| 4 | ring out | would | tones = tone | day | enough, loud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive · passive | tones = tone not said here | the world | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | ||||
| 6 | intonate | the old bell | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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