Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 73
It was a beautiful sunny day; flags were waving from tower and roof in royal Stuttgart, and the church bells were ringing a joyous peal.
Who acts: metal, flags, church bells · What happens: be, wave, ring · To what, where: beautiful sunny day, tower, joyous peal
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 (metal, flags, church bells), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 5 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 waving | punct |
| 8 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 waving | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 waving | aux |
| 10 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 day | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 tower | case |
| 12 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waving | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 roof | cc |
| 14 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tower | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Stuttgart | case |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Stuttgart | amod |
| 17 | Stuttgart | Stuttgart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 roof | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ringing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ringing | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bells | det |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bells | compound |
| 22 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ringing | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ringing | aux |
| 24 | ringing | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 waving | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 peal | det |
| 26 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 peal | amod |
| 27 | peal | peal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ringing | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | metal | a beautiful sunny day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wave | past · progressive | flags | tower and roof in royal Stuttgart | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ring | past · progressive | the church bells | a joyous peal | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peal=Theme |
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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