Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 56
Dark days and cold nights also passed over the old bell, and it noticed them not; but the bell in the man's heart felt it to be a gloomy time.
Who acts: Dark days, fugitive, bell · What happens: pass, not notice, feel, be · To what, where: old bell, bells, fugitive, gloomy time
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 (Dark days, fugitive, bell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:8042): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 days | amod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nights | cc |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nights | amod |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 days | conj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 bell | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bell | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bell | amod |
| 11 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 noticed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 noticed | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 noticed | nsubj |
| 15 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 noticed | obj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 noticed | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 felt | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 felt | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bell | det |
| 21 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 man | case |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bell | nmod |
| 27 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 felt | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 time | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 time | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 time | det |
| 32 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 time | amod |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 felt | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Dark days and cold nights | the old bell | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over bell=Location | ||||
| 2 | not notice | past | fugitive | bells = bell | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | the bell in the man's heart | fugitive | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | fugitive not said here | a gloomy time | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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