Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 146

As it hung there in the bird's-cage, it could hear the noise and murmur of the people in the street below, as well as the conversation of the old maid in the room within.

Who acts: reason, old maid · What happens: hang, hear, murmur, converse · To what, where: bird's cage, noise, people

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reason, old maid), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 hung	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hung	nsubj
3	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hung	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 cage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cage	det
7	bird's	bird's	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cage	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bird's	punct
9	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hung	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 noise	det
15	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 murmur	cc
17	murmur	murmur	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noise	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 people	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 murmur	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 street	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 street	det
23	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 people	nmod
24	below	below	ADV	_	23 street	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 conversation	punct
26	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	30 conversation	cc
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 as	fixed
28	as	as	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 conversation	det
30	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noise	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 maid	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 maid	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 maid	amod
34	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 conversation	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 room	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 room	det
37	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 maid	nmod
38	within	within	ADP	_	13 hear	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hang	past	reason		the bird's cage; there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cage=Location
2	hear	could	reason	the noise and murmur of the people in the street		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
3	murmur			the people in the street		nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient
4	converse		the old maid in the room			nom conversation «communication intransitive»: of=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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