Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 58
The old bell was, after a time, carried away to a greater distance than any one, even the warder in the bell tower, ever imagined; and the bell in the breast of the young man was heard in countries where his feet had never wandered.
Who acts: old bell, time · What happens: be, carry away, imagine, hear, not wander · To what, where: bell tower, bell, breast, feet
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 bell, time), 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 | 3 bell | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bell | amod |
| 3 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 carried | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 14 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 distance | amod |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 warder | punct |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 warder | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 warder | det |
| 22 | warder | warder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | appos |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 tower | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tower | det |
| 25 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tower | compound |
| 26 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 warder | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 imagined | punct |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 imagined | advmod |
| 29 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 tower | acl:relcl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 heard | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 heard | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bell | det |
| 33 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 heard | nsubj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 breast | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 breast | det |
| 36 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 heard | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 man | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 39 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 man | amod |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 heard | obl |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 heard | aux:pass |
| 42 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 time | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 countries | case |
| 44 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 heard | obl |
| 45 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 50 wandered | advmod |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 feet | nmod:poss |
| 47 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 wandered | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 wandered | aux |
| 49 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 50 wandered | advmod |
| 50 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 countries | acl:relcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old bell | after a time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry away | past | a time not said here | to a greater distance; than any one; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to distance=Destination | ||||
| 3 | imagine | participle | the bell tower not said here | ever | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · passive | the bell | the breast | of the young man; in countries | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not wander | past · perfect · passive | man's feet | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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