Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 9

It was the hour of the mother's sorrow, when there pealed forth from the church tower the sound of festive bells.

Who acts: child, mother · What happens: be, peal, sorrow · To what, where: hour, church tower

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 (child, mother), 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	4 hour	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 sorrow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sorrow	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hour	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pealed	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 pealed	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 pealed	expl
13	pealed	peal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hour	conj
14	forth	forth	ADV	_	13 pealed	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 tower	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tower	det
17	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tower	compound
18	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pealed	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sound	det
20	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tower	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 bells	case
22	festive	festive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bells	amod
23	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sound	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	child	the hour		of the mother's sorrow	tree rules
2	peal	participle	child not said here		the church tower; there	forth property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sorrow		the mother				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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