Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 50
The old church bell had still some comfort; it stood in the shelter of the church wall in Marbach, once so elevated, now quite forgotten.
Who acts: old church bell, comfort · What happens: have, stand, elevate, forget · To what, where: comfort, shelter
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 (old church bell, comfort), 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 | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 comfort | det |
| 8 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 shelter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shelter | det |
| 14 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wall | det |
| 17 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wall | compound |
| 18 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shelter | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Marbach | case |
| 20 | Marbach | Marbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wall | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 elevated | punct |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 elevated | advmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 elevated | advmod |
| 24 | elevated | elevate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stood | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forgotten | punct |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 forgotten | advmod |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 forgotten | advmod |
| 28 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 elevated | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old church bell | some comfort | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Patient | |||
| 2 | stand | past | comfort | the shelter of the church wall in Marbach | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shelter=Location | ||||
| 3 | elevate | participle | comfort not said here | once property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | forget | participle | comfort not said here | now | 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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