Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 40
They had already been heard in the narrow space behind the school-wall, even above the deafening sounds of "March! halt! front!"
What happens: hear · To what, where: tones, narrow space
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | aux:pass |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 space | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 space | det |
| 8 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 space | amod |
| 9 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 wall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wall | det |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wall | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 school | punct |
| 14 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 space | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sounds | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 sounds | advmod |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 20 sounds | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sounds | det |
| 19 | deafening | deafening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sounds | compound |
| 20 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 space | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 halt | case |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 halt | punct |
| 23 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 halt | compound |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 March | punct |
| 25 | halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sounds | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 front | punct |
| 27 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 front | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 front | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect · passive | tones = tone | the narrow space behind the school wall and the deafening sounds of March halt | front obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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