Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 70
The bust was cast in bronze, and part of the metal used for this purpose was the old church bell, whose tones had died away from the memory of those at home and elsewhere.
Who acts: part, tones · What happens: cast, use, be, die away · To what, where: bust, bronze, metal, old church bell, memory
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 (part, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bust | det |
| 2 | bust | bust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cast | aux:pass |
| 4 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bronze | case |
| 6 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cast | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 part | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 part | cc |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bell | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 metal | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 metal | det |
| 12 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 part | nmod |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 metal | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 purpose | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 purpose | det |
| 16 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 used | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bell | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bell | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bell | amod |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bell | compound |
| 21 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cast | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 died | punct |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 tones | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 died | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 died | aux |
| 26 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 bell | conj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 died | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 memory | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 memory | det |
| 30 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 died | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 those | case |
| 32 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 memory | nmod |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 home | case |
| 34 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 those | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 elsewhere | cc |
| 36 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 34 home | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past · passive | the bust | bronze | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in bronze=Destination | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | the metal not said here | for this purpose | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | part of the metal | the old church bell | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die away | past · perfect | tones | the memory of those | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from memory=Causer |
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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